static time line

Hello everyone,

From the book Stories That Stick by Kindra Hall.

Kindra talks about components that make a great story.

Another component we believed was essential was the presence of authentic emotion. A list of events or occurrences does not a great story make. A static time line is not a story. The emotion doesn’t have to be overly dramatic; it can be as simple or common as frustration or wonder or curiosity.

What is a time line in this context?
If it is an enumeration of events in chronological order, isn't it almost the same as "a list of events and occurrences"?

Thank you.

No one is saying that the third sentence {static time line} is talking about something different from the second sentence (list). Perhaps the third is another way of stating what the second does.