: You're a technical writer so I'll speak to you in your language. You know what a sine wave looks like, right? Think of good drama as maximizing the distance between the high and low peaks

You're a technical writer so I'll speak to you in your language. You know what a sine wave looks like, right? Think of good drama as maximizing the distance between the high and low peaks of the wave. The audience's emotional ride are the wave form. They ride between emotional high's and lows; happiness vs tragedy, control vs chaos, beauty vs fuggly.

For example, take the story of Moby Goldfish. An eight year old boy's challenge is to responsibly feed his fish named Moby. Moby swims in circles all his life. That's it. No drama. No highs and lows. Compare that to Moby Dick, a titanic struggle between life and death, human vs prey, man vs monster.

We are just beginning to quantify the mathematics of literature. Yes, it really is all about math at some level. We'll soon have machine learning models that can aid writers, rate scripts and write odd dramas.

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: Ironically the aphorism "Show don't tell" neither shows nor tells. Hence new writers are confused about its meaning and are prone to transposing the verbs.

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