#afabula

• To plot — To construct, structure, or organize the fabula (the plot, storyline, or narrative canvas) of a literary work, a dramatic text, or a cinematographic script. This process regulates the logical and chronological sequence of events and actions through which characters evolve, forming the structural baseline of any epic or dramatic composition.
• Plotting — The act of plotting and its result; the structural operation of composing the plot or storyline of a literary or dramatic work. In a clinical psychological or psychiatric sense, the term designates the involuntary tendency to confabulate, to invent imaginary fictional scenarios, to forge implausible stories, and to present them as real-life events, often associated with mythomania.
• Plotted — Having an action, plot, or storyline well-structured, organized, and developed from a narrative standpoint; a work or dramatic text whose structural canvas has been elaborated according to epic composition rules. It describes the final state of a script or story whose causal elements have been logically linked.
• Plot structure — The collection of elements constituting the plot, storyline, or epic structure of a literary work; the structural manner in which events are arranged and linked within a narrative. In clinical psychology, the term sometimes designates the inclination to invent imaginary facts or the tendency toward compulsive fabulation specific to certain personality disorders.
• Archaic plot structure — An archaic or obsolete linguistic variant of the term 'afabulație'; the structural mode, canvas, or weave upon which the plot and storyline of a literary or dramatic work are constructed. It is encountered isolatedly in cultural magazines from the early 20th century or in early criticism studies, later completely replaced by the modern variant.