I have found that a bothersome way of telling a story is using a line and then fracturing it.

Say you are telling a simple story of going to the store to get a gallon of milk and coming back home. That's not a very interesting story everyone will say, but let's say that along the way you were attacked by an UFO. Whatever happens in the story the story must end and there's always this sense that the outline has just taken the line and broken it up with these roadblocks only to continue a short time later with what seems like very little thought or care to the whole story on the whole.

Take the common moment in a story when one character or group of characters comes to this wise character or a character that's just got a key or some object they need to continue along their lined path. First this roadblock tells them no way in hell will they help them and then almost five minutes more into the story this character tells them after there was no way in the world they were going to help that said help is freely given with a simple okay or in fact are fully on board with the plan as it were their own, which just takes me out of the story breaking the spell of disbelief as plainly comical.

Maybe it's because I don't really write with a formal outline that I can see these stories as a clock that is lock down to move with a madness of precision and there's no way to really change the course and I can even see the screws and blots moving with no time for reflection.

Really I still see one of the best films ever made as "Back to the Future" where the audience is rewarded for paying attention and it isn't mindless action scenes, one after the next. Instead in "Future" when the uncle doesn't make bail we later learn in the past that he cries when you take him out of his playpen. Clearly the setup is better than having a highway with these little speedbumps along the way as the ticking is rather formulaic now as this is a beat is so many stories today.