Built-in dimensions and custom questions.

What it does

Configured dimensions can cover narrative questions such as relevance, tension, awareness, voice, movement, and coherence. Custom metrics, entity types, observer-target relationships, and trajectories let ObservaStory grow with the project.

Why it matters

A metric like Poetics can sit beside tension without requiring a universal craft theory. Its definition note supplies the author’s meaning, while configuration supplies the eligible targets and bounded context.

• Built-in dimensions provide a practical starting vocabulary.
• Custom metrics let a project define its own development questions.
• Custom story-element types can represent motifs, institutions, promises, or other author-defined things.
• Relationships and trajectories are configuration contracts, not fixed theories of character or arc.