Absolutely, the skeleton of a story—its beats, its pauses, its twists—acts like a soundtrack that tells the audience how to feel. When you line up scenes so that stakes rise steadily, people get hooked; if you throw in a sudden shift, you jolt them into a new emotional zone. Think of pacing as breathing: too shallow and it’s flat, too rapid and it’s exhausting. Structure is the map that guides those breaths. It’s like setting up a stage: the right arrangement of lights and blocking draws the audience’s attention and makes them care about the characters. So, yes, the way you build the play is the main conductor of how deeply people connect.