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I've already applied this technique to each of your stories.

All of them but the Wendy's mom story has a Score of 2.33 or 2.32. The Wendy Mom story Score was 1.5.

It's not that a high score or a low score is better or worse, it that different stories should have very different Scores.

When the Story Scores are all within 1% of each other, that means that the author is telling the same type of story in the same way, each time. Even if a 2.33 story is your reader's favorite style of story telling, eventually they will become over familiar with that story structure and start to get bored.

They won't even be able to articulate what it is that is wrong. Most people are not used to analyzing why they like what they like.

That's the very reason why I critique stories like I do. I'm frustrated that I don't have someone to tell me how to improve the stuff I make up, but I try to provide that service to others.

I just sort of hope that some of the benefit rubs off on me too.