Cutting is part of writing; and narrative logic is more important than authorial fondness.
In the broadest sense, narrative logic is any logical process of narrative analysis.
Using narrative logic, we take all relevant information from the narrative and come to a conclusion about Driver's fate.
This example shows how the application of narrative logic may lead to different conclusions using the same evidence.
But another analogy might be the slippery narrative logic of dreams, flitting between pleasure and pain.
One questioned the narrative logic of the Bayreuth cure.
But most of the time his work has a clear-eyed narrative logic that seems neither second-hand nor saccharine.
Of course, references are made in the current two episodes to Crosetti's death, but narrative logic doesn't stand a chance against rating ploys.
But Verdi did not care about narrative logic.
I confess that the narrative logic of Ms. Jones's books often eludes me.