After The End/6-8/Graphing a story

I found this particular section useful. Graphing a story seems to reveal more than using a more simplistic plot line. You can graph various aspects of the narrative, such as emotional states of the characters, action, even keep track of how a writer uses vivid verbs, appositives and other "brush strokes" (thank you, Warren). Right away you can determine a number of variables, and decide where the story needs more work. I suppose this can be applied to just about every kind of writing, whether poetic or transactional. I would relate it to a seismograph or an EKG.