Obstacles

Looking at the post below, the most obvious thing is that the 'story' is boring. Nothing seems to actually happen.
Yet a closer look reveals that several life changing events take place: leaving college; moving to a big city; courtship and marriage; becoming a parent; dying... so why do these human events lack impact?
It's because they are too easy.
The word 'drama' can mean simply 'a play' (for theater) or it can be used to suggest something more exciting and engaging 'dramatic'. Alfred Hitchcock once defined cinema (and drama) as 'life with the dull bits taken out'.
As a brainstorming exercise, as something to make a habit in all your story work, you can use the test of OBSTACLES.
Every time you have a simple (boring) solution to a story progression, ask yourself the question, "What could prevent this from happening?".
When faced with an obstacle, your character will be forced to ACT. That is, they will become active and will find a way - often surprisingly, to overcome the obstacle.
In the example below, our man does NOT get promotion, because a rival beats him to it. Now what? The lovely but rather dull office companion does not agree to marry him. As a matter of fact, not only is she in a relationship with someone else, but she can't stand our 'hero'.
At every twist and turn, each time we want to have our happy events and make life easy for our protagonists, we will put a spoke in their wheels and make them struggle.
Not only is this more 'dramatic', it's also much more true to real life, and thus has much more resonance for an audience.
After all, interesting stories are by definition unpredictable. Success is dull, because there's only really one way to succeed, yet there and many, many ways in which to fail.
Best of all is repeated failure followed by unexpected success.
Use this information to build dynamic stories.
And remember, Drama is just a small town in Greece.