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title: Scene Purpose Balance
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category: Story Health
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tags: story health, scene purpose, revision
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contextKey: storyHealth.scenePurposeBalance
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micro: Check whether scenes have clear purpose and outcome.
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quickTitle: Scene purpose balance
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quickSummary: Scene Purpose Balance helps find scenes whose purpose or outcome may be missing.
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screenshot:
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# Overview
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Scene Purpose Balance shows how scenes are distributed by purpose and highlights scenes missing purpose or outcome.
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# When Should I Use This?
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Use it when a chapter feels unfocused, repetitive or hard to justify.
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# How To Use It
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Review missing purpose and outcome links. Decide whether each scene needs clearer intent, a stronger consequence or removal.
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# Example
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A scene may have atmosphere and dialogue but no outcome. That does not make it wrong, but it asks what changes by the end.
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# Writer Tip
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Every scene should give the reader something they did not have before.
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# Common Mistakes
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- Treating purpose labels as formula.
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- Keeping scenes because they are well written but consequence-free.
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- Ignoring repeated missing outcomes.
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# Related Guides
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- [Scenes](/Help/Article/scenes.overview)
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- [Story Health](/Help/Article/storyHealth.overview)
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