What does the quote "plots are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what" mean?

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I have looked everywhere to try and figure this out. This is a quote from Margaret Atwood's Happy Endings. Thank you!

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She means the plot of a story.
She's referring to the questions "What? Where? When? Why and How?" which writers ask themselves in order to construct a story.

She implies that the story line just tells what happened, then what happened next and then what happened in the end.

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http://users.ipfw.edu/ruflethe/endings.h…