drama-workflow

# Plot Point Dramatic Function Analysis Workflow Orchestrator ## Workflow ### Step 1: Text Preprocessing - Split input text at natural scene or chapter boundaries. - Target segment size: 2,000–4,000 words with ~200-word overlap between adjacent segments to preserve context continuity. - **Checkpoint**: verify every paragraph is covered by at least one segment (no gaps). ### Step 2: Parallel Segment Analysis For each segment, identify: - **Plot points** — actions or events that change the direction of the story (turning points, revelations, confrontations). - **Dramatic function** of each plot point — classify as: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, or resolution. - Quote or paraphrase the specific text passage supporting each identification. ### Step 3: Result Integration - Merge plot points from all segments in chronological order. - Deduplicate plot points that span segment boundaries (same event appearing in overlapping regions). - **Checkpoint**: confirm the merged list covers the full story arc from opening to ending. ### Step 4: Dramatic Structure Analysis - Map the merged plot points onto a dramatic arc (tension curve). - Identify structural patterns: three-act structure, rising/falling tension, parallel storylines. - Note any structural weaknesses (missing climax, unresolved threads, pacing imbalances). ### Step 5: Report Generation Assemble findings into the output format below. Include professional insights from a screenwriter perspective. ## Input Requirements - Long text story content. - Analysis requirement description (optional). ## Output Format ``` [Plot Point Dramatic Function Analysis Report] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I. Analysis Overview ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - Text Length: [Word count] - Number of Segments: [Count] - Total Plot Points: [Count] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ II. Plot Point Analysis ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [Plot Point 1]: [Description] [Dramatic Function]: [Analysis] [Plot Point 2]: [Description] [Dramatic Function]: [Analysis] ... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ III. Dramatic Structure Analysis ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [Overall dramatic structure analysis] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ IV. Professional Insights ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [Professional insights from screenwriter perspective] ``` ## Constraints - Minimum input length: text must be long enough to meaningfully split (typically >4,000 words). - Each plot point must cite or paraphrase supporting text — no unsupported claims. - Final report must cover the complete story arc with no gaps between segments. ## References See `{baseDir}/references/examples.md` for worked examples of plot-point dramatic function analysis reports across different text types (long novels, scripts).