When I already have the list of story events, how do I reorder or withhold them in the telling to create suspense, curiosity or surprise?

Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S1, S2 rest on the producer's pinned reading. Brewer and Lichtenstein separate the events as they happen (event structure) from the order and completeness of the telling (discourse structure), and tie three affects to three arrangements: suspense (tell the initiating event early, delay the outcome), curiosity (omit an event but signal the gap), surprise (omit critical information without signalling, reveal it later). Each affect needs a resolution step to count toward story liking in their account. The reports give minimal worked examples an agent can copy as outline moves. Curator qualifications: Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S1, S2 rest on the producer's pinned reading. Curator GET 2026-10-23 of the sources not re-read (mechanical source evidence, not semantic verification): S1: HTTP 200, bytes equal to the producer pin; S2: HTTP 200, bytes equal to the producer pin. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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