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title: Scene Metric Shape
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category: Story Health
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tags: story health, scene metrics, pacing, charts
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contextKey: storyHealth.sceneMetricShape
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micro: Compare scene metric values across narrative order.
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quickTitle: Scene metric shape
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quickSummary: Scene Metric Shape visualises peaks and rests in metrics such as tension, romance, darkness, hope or mystery.
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screenshot:
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# Overview
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Scene Metric Shape shows how selected scene metrics rise and fall across the story. It can reveal pacing patterns, tonal runs and places where the draft may need contrast.
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# When Should I Use This?
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Use it when reviewing emotional intensity, tension, mystery, romance, violence, darkness, hope, comedy or other genre-specific metrics.
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# How To Use It
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Compare the graph to your intention. A flat line may be right for a quiet sequence, or it may show that a chapter needs a turn.
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# Example
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If mystery stays low for several chapters in a mystery novel, the chart asks whether clues, questions or uncertainty need more presence.
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# Writer Tip
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Metrics describe emphasis. They do not score quality.
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# Common Mistakes
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- Assuming every chapter needs the same shape.
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- Making every metric high.
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- Forgetting that missing values may mean scenes have not been reviewed.
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# Related Guides
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- [Scene Metrics](/Help/Article/sceneMetrics.overview)
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- [Story Health](/Help/Article/storyHealth.overview)
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