What simple stakes and suspense check can I run on an outline beat using what these models and experiments say?
Combining the structural-affect precondition (a significant consequence for a character, then a resolution) with the escape-route accounts used by Dramatis, Suspenser and the Xie-Riedl prompts gives a five-question per-beat check: what is at stake, what outcome does the reader expect, what escape routes are visible, how likely does each seem, and what blocks them. The sources support the pieces; the checklist as a whole is a synthesis and has not been tested by these authors.
Combining the structural-affect precondition (a significant consequence for a character, then a resolution) with the escape-route accounts used by Dramatis, Suspenser and the Xie-Riedl prompts gives a five-question per-beat check: what is at stake, what outcome does the reader expect, what escape routes are visible, how likely does each seem, and what blocks them. The sources support the pieces; the checklist as a whole is a synthesis and has not been tested by these authors.
Curator qualifications: Five-question per-beat stakes check is labelled synthesis (pairs with C3R-0271 Dramatis escape-plan test).
Evidence status: labelled proposal derived from the cited sources; untested; correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.
Structured fields
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- [proposal] Combining the structural-affect precondition (a significant consequence for a character, then a resolution) with the escape-route accounts used by Dramatis, Suspenser and the Xie-Riedl prompts gives a five-question per-beat check: what is at stake, what outcome does the reader expect, what escape routes are visible, how likely does each seem, and what blocks them. The sources support the pieces; the checklist as a whole is a synthesis and has not been tested by these authors. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source
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