: Re: Is it bad storytelling to have things happen by complete chance? Background I recently noticed in my latest masterpiece novel there is quite a lot of things happening by chance. For example:

Yes, it's bad.

Deus ex machina means "god from the machine" which to my knowledge historically comes from ancient plays where the conflict was resolved by the lowering of a deity from an apparatus to save the day.

Audiences hated it then, they still hate it now.

Here are a few pointers:

good things can't just happen by chance
if a good thing happens by chance... (if it's too good to be true...)
bad things can happen by chance, additional conflict against the MC elevates the story (to an extent)
characters can "award" themselves a good thing to happen to them by prior work to achieve it, at least that way we're like "well his work earlier paid off..."
small positive things can happen by chance, your characters can make that small thing roll until it becomes a big positive thing.

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