Fiction Prompt system index and invocation routes
Source and scope
Translated from the original Word asset's Chinese Markdown migration. This is a method asset, not StoryForge's sole runtime template. Product coverage and gap assessments below describe the source document's context; consult the current feature guides for present capabilities.
This index collects directly usable Prompts for fiction stages and routes for longform, short fiction, serials, and genres. The core system contains three method documents, 30 stage/genre documents, and 118 directly usable Prompt units.
Forge Writing Workshop: start with one concrete problem
The application also includes 28 original workshop templates for drafting, local revision, and reducing mechanical prose. Open the Prompt library, select the Forge Writing Workshop (熔炉写作工坊) scope, or search for “续写”, “对白”, or “去ai味”. New templates are inactive by default and leave existing selections unchanged.
- Only an idea: choose Start from one sentence (一句话起步); full character sheets and worldbuilding are not required.
- Ready to draft: choose Scene card (场景卡) or Write prose from a scene (按场景写正文), supplying the goal and stopping point.
- Mechanical style: diagnose with 去 AI 味体检, then choose faithful light revision, sentence groups, details, or dialogue as needed. You do not need every template.
- Finished a chapter: use Accurate handoff (准确交接), checking character knowledge and actual events before continuing.
- Preparing to publish: use blind-read checks and title/blurb tools, checking for inflated story promises.
In a workflow node, choose the relevant Prompt module and select its name under This node's template (本节点模板), then supply materials. When connecting upstream output, bind the target variable to text. These templates process explicitly provided materials; they do not automatically read the entire work. Node hints can add style, protected facts, and length requirements.
The four “去 AI 味·” templates can also be activated for the prose tool. They return only revised prose; diagnostic and style-analysis templates return reports and should run separately in workflows. Clone a template into My templates before customizing it. Reducing mechanical prose means improving expression, not evading AI detection or replacing the author's voice.
1. Read first
- Master blueprint: fiction stages and Prompt system
- Methodology foundations
- Asset structure, quality gates, and tests
- Using fiction Prompts in StoryForge
2. Project definition and story core
| Stage | Document | When | Main output |
|---|---|---|---|
| P00 | Creative brief and gap diagnosis | Scattered ideas or conflicting requirements | Brief, constraints, decisions |
| P01 | Material cleanup and original idea cards | Many ideas, references, or raw Prompts | Original atoms, clusters, combinations |
| P02 | Genre, reader promises, differentiation | Defining audience and experience | Main promise, genre boundaries, differentiation |
| P03 | Concept selection and premise stress test | Multiple ideas or unstable core | Comparisons, stress test, story core |
| P08 | Structure models and major turns | Core settled; planning the book | Structure choice, major turns, ending checks |
Recommended: P00 → P01 (if materials exist) → P02 → P03 → P08. Return whenever premises change; finalizing everything in one pass is not required.
3. Research, world, character, and plot engine
| Stage | Document | Prompts | Main purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| P04 | Fact boundaries and research | 3 | Research questions, factual adjudication, facts into plot |
| P05 | Causal worldbuilding and consistency | 4 | Minimal world, causal chains, lived texture, loophole audit |
| P06 | Character drives, relationships, arcs | 4 | Drives, opposition, supporting network, stage states |
| P07 | Conflict, information, subplots | 4 | Plot engine, escalation, information matrix, subplot collisions |
World, character, and plot can iterate: conditions alter choices, choices alter consequences, and consequences revise worlds and plans.
4. Length and delivery branches
- Longform: Volume promises, subplots, and middles, four Prompts.
- Short fiction: Single effect, compression, ending, four Prompts.
- Serial add-on: Reader rewards, breaks, production, four Prompts, enabled only for serials.
Choose longform or short fiction as the main architecture. Serialization is an added production layer, not a third story structure.
5. Chapters, prose, and continuity
- P10 Chapter function, scene turns, emotion: five Prompts, including chapter titles.
- P11 Openings, continuation, dialogue, action, narration: six Prompts.
- P12 Memory, facts, states, timeline, foreshadowing: six Prompts.
Cycle: chapter task → scene cards → prose → memory/state diff → plan reconciliation → next chapter. Maintain continuity after each confirmed chapter, not only after finishing the book.
6. Revision and reader validation
| Stage | Document | Prompts | Principle |
|---|---|---|---|
| P13 | Developmental editing, causality, character, endings | 5 | Fix story first; diagnose before rewriting |
| P14 | Scenes, dialogue, viewpoint, pacing, targeted rewriting | 6 | Explicit permitted scope |
| P15 | Blind reads, promises, beta simulation | 5 | Detect reading risks; do not replace real readers |
Order: P13 → restructure along the chosen route → P14 → P15 → targeted revision of confirmed problems.
7. Packaging and Prompt management
- P16 Titles, blurbs, synopses, tags, submissions: five Prompts.
- P17 Run review, version evaluation, Prompt generation: five Prompts.
Spoiler-free blurbs and complete synopses are different tasks, not substitutes. Validate Prompt upgrades across multiple sample classes.
8. Genre specialties
| Genre | Document | Prompts | Key condition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair-play mystery | Solution, clues, misdirection, reveal | 5 | Readers can access key evidence |
| Romance | Relationship, attraction, resistance, intimacy, ending | 5 | Distinguish genre romance, love-themed fiction, romantic subplot |
| Progression | Abilities, resources, challenges, costs | 5 | Perceptible progress, justified gains, new limits |
| Historical | Factual anchors, period texture, alternate history | 4 | Separate certainty, disputes, gaps, invention |
| Science fiction | Novums, technical limits, human consequences | 4 | Deduce institutions and choices from the premise |
| Fantasy | Magic, myth, culture, wonder | 4 | Mystery does not permit arbitrary consequences |
| Ensemble | Viewpoints, character weight, information puzzle | 4 | Core viewpoints irreplaceable; not equal screen time |
| Realism/literary | Daily pressure, low plot, open meaning | 4 | Low plot still changes; characters are not issue vehicles |
| Horror | Threat, unknown, escalation, lingering fear | 4 | Unknowns have boundaries; escalation is not just gore |
| Comedy | Contrast, misunderstanding, rhythm, dignity | 4 | Characters follow their logic, not lowered intelligence for jokes |
Genre packages cover only their genres. Author project rules always take priority. Mixed genres need one main promise and a few optional supporting packages.
9. Shortest usable routes
- Complete longform: P00 → P02 → P03 → P05/P06/P07 → P08 → P09L → P10/P11/P12 cycle → P13/P14/P15 → P16.
- Serial longform: above + P09R; organize/judge reader feedback before changing outlines.
- Short fiction: P00 → P01/P03 → P09S → simplified P10 → P11 → P14/P15 → P16.
- Existing-manuscript revision: P13 → P12 continuity audit → P14 → P15 → P16.
10. Usage principles
- Do not run multiple generation Prompts concurrently against the same fact target.
- Authors confirm diagnoses before revision Prompts.
- Genre/serial rules cannot override written facts or explicit author choices.
- Extract mechanisms from references, not proprietary names or expression fingerprints.
- Before writeback preserve original draft, Prompt version, input snapshot, and adoption record.