# What simple stakes and suspense check can I run on an outline beat using what these models and experiments say?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T16:54:17.866Z
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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.

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      "url": "https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/oneill-aaai14.pdf",
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      "url": "https://inglab.github.io/assets/files/ICIDS08Cheong.pdf",
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      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17119v1",
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Evidence claims:
- [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: https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/oneill-aaai14.pdf

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