In some ways I agree - especially in a novel - but the 'contrived coincidence' is a staple of soap opera plots. Programmes like Coronation Street, Neighbours, Eastenders, etc, all rely on contrived coincidences pretty heavily.KEVP wrote:The problem is the "contrived coincidence". I think readers were more tolerant of this in the past (Dickens has a lot of them) but people don't put up with it today. Your hero loses their cell phone the one day that they need it the most. Seems like a contrived coincidence.
But maybe the bad guys steal the cell phone. Or the bad guys do something with their tech to disable the cell phone.
Or maybe my original idea. Since the hero has a cell phone, the bad guys are able to zoom in on it to find the hero. So the hero themself destroys the cell phone so that the bad guys can't find them.
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Or one could be traveling to remote locations where cell reception is very patchy, wifi is not free, and roaming charges cost an arm and a leg!
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