The 4-Pass Structural Triage Hierarchy
- Pass 1: Macro Architecture & Causal Integrity: Verifying core act turning points and character motivation arcs.
- Pass 2: Scene Necessity & Energy Waves: Pruning episodic tangents and calculating scene polarity shifts.
- Pass 3: Dialogue Subtext & Voice Tuning: Stripping on-the-nose exposition and sharpening distinct character registers.
- Pass 4: Line Prosody & Sensory Anchoring: Refining sentence acoustics, Gary Provost rhythms, and sensory density.
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