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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I think we might need to first understand what we mean by suspense arxiv.org/pdf/2004.14905
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"Suspense, simply put, is curiosity charged with empathy" -- Robert McKee, Dialogue
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