<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Service details &amp; practical guides — Story Research Lab</title><link>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/</link><description>Service details &amp; practical guides</description><language>en</language><item><title>What should a story-editing brief specify?</title><link>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/story-editing-service-brief/</link><guid>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/story-editing-service-brief/</guid><description>Define the level of edit and decision it supports. Developmental feedback, line editing, proofreading and adaptation are different deliverables.</description></item><item><title>How do you brief an editor on story pacing?</title><link>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/story-beat-pacing-worksheet/</link><guid>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/story-beat-pacing-worksheet/</guid><description>Map what changes in each beat and why the audience needs it. Pacing is not simply making every scene shorter.</description></item><item><title>What should a character-arc review examine?</title><link>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/character-arc-review-brief/</link><guid>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/character-arc-review-brief/</guid><description>Track choices, consequences and changes in belief across scenes. A biography or personality list does not establish an arc.</description></item><item><title>How do you request useful dialogue revisions?</title><link>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/dialogue-revision-request/</link><guid>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/dialogue-revision-request/</guid><description>Explain scene purpose and character voice before requesting sharper lines. A dialogue pass should preserve meaning and established facts.</description></item><item><title>What should a series continuity handoff contain?</title><link>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/series-continuity-editor-handoff/</link><guid>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/series-continuity-editor-handoff/</guid><description>Release dated references covering chronology, facts, props and character knowledge. A character spreadsheet alone may omit essential dependencies.</description></item><item><title>What should an animatic commission brief deliver?</title><link>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/story-animatic-commission-brief/</link><guid>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/story-animatic-commission-brief/</guid><description>Specify what the animatic tests: timing, staging, sequence or presentation. It is not automatically finished animation or licensed sound production.</description></item><item><title>What should a story-localization handoff include?</title><link>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/story-localization-handoff/</link><guid>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/story-localization-handoff/</guid><description>Provide context, terminology and constraints, not isolated lines. Translation, adaptation, subtitle timing and cultural review are separate services.</description></item><item><title>What should a story pitch-packet service include?</title><link>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/story-pitch-packet-scope/</link><guid>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/story-pitch-packet-scope/</guid><description>Define the recipient&#39;s actual requirements and the materials to produce. A pitch packet is communication work, not a promise of funding or publication.</description></item><item><title>How do you audit an ending for promised payoffs?</title><link>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/ending-payoff-audit/</link><guid>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/ending-payoff-audit/</guid><description>List expectations the story created and identify what the ending answers, transforms or intentionally leaves open. Resolution is not the same as explaining every fact.</description></item><item><title>How do you accept a commissioned story revision?</title><link>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/story-revision-acceptance-record/</link><guid>https://story.sanjiesanworld.com/articles/service-guides/story-revision-acceptance-record/</guid><description>Check agreed requests, version and deliverables separately from personal preference. Acceptance should reflect the actual brief, not newly invented requirements.</description></item></channel></rss>