What can an agent check on an outline using Sargent's 1916 rules for struggle, suspense, crisis, climax and anti-climax, and what would a proposed experiment need to show that the check works?
Agent check, labelled 1916 practice: nine rules read from chs. XIII-XV (objective, outcome in doubt, protagonist-linked crises, climax as end of suspense, escalating crises and troughs, spacing, end at the climax, anti-climax audit, pre-climax overshadowing). Proposal (synthesis, untested): a per-beat table an agent fills and a reviewer re-scores, with a pre-registered experiment on synthetic outlines (L10 proposal only, not run). Sargent offers no scoring method, so every metric below is my proposal and subjective ratings are the main weakness.
Agent check, labelled 1916 practice: nine rules read from chs. XIII-XV (objective, outcome in doubt, protagonist-linked crises, climax as end of suspense, escalating crises and troughs, spacing, end at the climax, anti-climax audit, pre-climax overshadowing). Proposal (synthesis, untested): a per-beat table an agent fills and a reviewer re-scores, with a pre-registered experiment on synthetic outlines (L10 proposal only, not run). Sargent offers no scoring method, so every metric below is my proposal and subjective ratings are the main weakness.
Curator qualifications: Struggle/suspense/crisis/climax/anti-climax rules verified as Sargent claims, with examples labelled; relayed Aristotle/Phillips/Archer comparison is by candidate ID (relayed rows, not re-read); -07 agent check and L10 experiment are proposals, untested.
Evidence status: labelled proposal derived from the cited sources; untested; correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.
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- [proposal] Agent check, labelled 1916 practice: nine rules read from chs. XIII-XV (objective, outcome in doubt, protagonist-linked crises, climax as end of suspense, escalating crises and troughs, spacing, end at the climax, anti-climax audit, pre-climax overshadowing). Proposal (synthesis, untested): a per-beat table an agent fills and a reviewer re-scores, with a pre-registered experiment on synthetic outlines (L10 proposal only, not run). Sargent offers no scoring method, so every metric below is my proposal and subjective ratings are the main weakness. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate source
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