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How can I avoid a predictable plot?

Don't plan the storyline.

If the writer doesn't know then how can the readers? (Only if the writer's thinking is predictable, not a savoury answer sure.)

Have a read of this blogpost on writersdigest.com, it'll push your boundaries if you let it. Paradox:

In storytelling, what will happen informs what is happening, and what
is happening informs what did. You cannot know where a story needs to
go until you know where itâ€™s been, but you cannot know where it needs
to have been until you know where itâ€™s going.

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