Made for Authors
Build a Scene-by-Scene Pressure Map
Also useful for: people in Creative, people in Writers
You score each scene in your manuscript's middle for goal, resistance, change, stakes, and forward pull. You then turn the scores into a visual map and a ranked revision plan.
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Use this when
Use this when your opening and ending work but your middle feels flat, crowded, repetitive, rushed, or hard to diagnose. You can also use it before a structural edit, after beta feedback, or when deciding which scenes deserve a rewrite.
You'll need
- Manuscript material
- Middle range
- Manuscript spine
- Intended effect
- Scoring scale
- Known concerns
You'll get
- Every selected scene labeled and scored across all five pressure dimensions
- Evidence for each score, a readable visual map, at least three diagnosed pressure patterns, a ranked revision list, continuity checks, and a plan for rescoring your revised scenes.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- Every selected scene labeled and scored across all five pressure dimensions
- Evidence for each score, a readable visual map, at least three diagnosed pressure patterns, a ranked revision list, continuity checks, and a plan for rescoring your revised scenes.
Sample
This is sample data, not your prompt. Pro unlocks this higher-stakes Playbook. On Free Playbooks you can still copy the assembled prompt into any AI.
Sample input
You provide chapters 9 through 18 of your mystery novel. You explain that Mara should shift from detached researcher to personally committed investigator. You want the middle to tighten gradually, but you suspect two interviews repeat the same clue and the sibling conflict vanishes after chapter 11.
Sample assembled prompt
You receive a 14-scene table with... Your heat strip exposes a three-scene... Your revision list recommends combining the...