Several of the author’s steps involve doubling the amount of writing of the previous step. At the logical extreme, you could double at every step, and achieve

Several of the author’s steps involve doubling the amount of writing of the previous step. At the logical extreme, you could double at every step, and achieve a better structured story with exactly twice the writing required for the final step. (Because 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + … + 2^n = 2^(n+1)-1) And this makes sense with the fractal idea of the snowflake.