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title: Scene Purpose Balance
category: Story Health
tags: story health, scene purpose, revision
contextKey: storyHealth.scenePurposeBalance
micro: Check whether scenes have clear purpose and outcome.
quickTitle: Scene purpose balance
quickSummary: Scene Purpose Balance helps find scenes whose purpose or outcome may be missing.
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# Overview

Scene Purpose Balance shows how scenes are distributed by purpose and highlights scenes missing purpose or outcome.

# When Should I Use This?

Use it when a chapter feels unfocused, repetitive or hard to justify.

# How To Use It

Review missing purpose and outcome links. Decide whether each scene needs clearer intent, a stronger consequence or removal.

# Example

A scene may have atmosphere and dialogue but no outcome. That does not make it wrong, but it asks what changes by the end.

# Writer Tip

Every scene should give the reader something they did not have before.

# Common Mistakes

- Treating purpose labels as formula.
- Keeping scenes because they are well written but consequence-free.
- Ignoring repeated missing outcomes.

# Related Guides

- [Scenes](/Help/Article/scenes.overview)
- [Story Health](/Help/Article/storyHealth.overview)
