Just read Margaret Atwood's take on storytelling. (Where have I been?)
Nailed it. She ends with this:
"So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known
to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with.
"That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.
"Now try How and Why."
Read the whole thing here:
Brilliant, she is.