# Which failure modes does Baker's 1919 Chapter IX name for weak scenarios, and what outline checklist would an agent take from them (labelled 1919 stage practice)?

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1919 stage-play practice. Baker names about a dozen ways a scenario fails: too brief or only a summary; no persons list; an over-descriptive persons list; over-elaborate settings; missing background; withholding the key fact for surprise; talky or referential openings; entrance-and-exit schedules; lines that promise a powerful scene instead of showing it; unclear purpose or suspense; and treating an approved scenario as fixed. This batch turns them into a ten-question outline checklist (synthesis, with evidence per question); the chapter gives no scoring and no mention of automatic systems, so any LLM use is a proposal.

1919 stage-play practice. Baker names about a dozen ways a scenario fails: too brief or only a summary; no persons list; an over-descriptive persons list; over-elaborate settings; missing background; withholding the key fact for surprise; talky or referential openings; entrance-and-exit schedules; lines that promise a powerful scene instead of showing it; unclear purpose or suspense; and treating an approved scenario as fixed. This batch turns them into a ten-question outline checklist (synthesis, with evidence per question); the chapter gives no scoring and no mention of automatic systems, so any LLM use is a proposal.

Curator qualifications: Named failure modes located; the agent checklist is a labelled interpretation without weights.

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      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36580/pg36580.txt",
      "note": "Baker Ch. IX"
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```

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- [sourced_fact] 1919 stage-play practice. Baker names about a dozen ways a scenario fails: too brief or only a summary; no persons list; an over-descriptive persons list; over-elaborate settings; missing background; withholding the key fact for surprise; talky or referential openings; entrance-and-exit schedules; lines that promise a powerful scene instead of showing it; unclear purpose or suspense; and treating an approved scenario as fixed. This batch turns them into a ten-question outline checklist (synthesis, with evidence per question); the chapter gives no scoring and no mention of automatic systems, so any LLM use is a proposal. · locator: Baker Ch. IX · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36580/pg36580.txt

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