Strong stories bind their beats with BUT and THEREFORE — this happened, therefore that; she tried, but it failed. Weak ones run on AND THEN: a list of events. This measures the ratio in your pages.
Paste a scene — or a few. It runs the real causal-binding diagnostic in your browser. Free, no signup.
This is the free, self-serve read. For the deep version — a dialectical pass where you name two masters (say Tarkovsky and Bergman) and get one concrete prescription on your actual pages — DM your logline and first pages →