Scene Construction (SCAM)

Table of Contents

• Core Principles
• Workflow
• The SCAM Gate
• Scene Floor and Ceiling
• Scene or Summary: Distance Targets
• The Scene Provenance Ledger
• Guardrails
• Quick Reference

Related skills: Use narrative-fidelity-audit for the interiority ladder and the bright lines, narrative-arc-mapping for where scenes sit in the whole piece, narrative-opposition-web for who the scene's actors oppose, writing-structure-planner for sequencing, slop-detector for the register pass that runs last. The fidelity audit owns the ladder and runs on a finished draft; this skill runs on a candidate scene before drafting.

Core Principles