"The first move the more experienced creative writer can make toward absorbing these models is to realize that "plot" is an illusion. It's an illusion the writer ought to disabuse her- or himself of pretty quickly if she or he ever wants to write anything of substance, ambition, or literary richness. (There is no plot.) That is to say, plot is an effect that other written elements produce in concert. Outside of those elements, plot has no autonomous existence."

- Samuel R Delany, About Writing.