I think it’s a slow exponential in genre fiction, but mostly linear in literary fiction
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If you plot fractal tension/resolution graph of a story, the progressive peaks leading up to the climax... do they form an exponential or linear curve? It’s usually drawn as a linear ramp (Freytag triangle) but nobody specifies whether y axis is linear or log, so it’s unclear 
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maybe story tension is a dB scale
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dB is log, so that would be exp
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I think we might need to first understand what we mean by suspense https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.14905.pdf …
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and here we go yak-shaving :D
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Linear. Always linear unless specified otherwise.
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depends on the 'story' ('story' being an overloaded term)
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If this is the first tweet on the subject, then I reserve the right to wait for the retweets and replies to your second and third before I can hazard a guess.
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Consider fantasy where the first book the hero saves a village, the second they save the world, the third they save the universe. Superficially exponential, practically negative slope.
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exponential. Like markets (both are stories). Also don't forget about inflexion points, very important :-)pic.twitter.com/ZJExVXzgkY
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