Using fiction Prompts in StoryForge

Source and scope

Translation of the original Word asset's Chinese migration. These methods are separate from current product implementation; task variables and boundaries are preserved.

Use each stage through prepare materials → run Prompt → inspect result → choose adoption, rather than one generation deciding everything.

1. Three project parameters

1. Length mode: longform, short fiction, or novella/shorter fiction.
2. Delivery: complete manuscript, volume-based creation, ongoing serial.
3. Main genre promise: one primary genre with supporting genres; do not load every rule.

These decide which Prompts, how much context, and which rules do not belong in the work.

2. Stages and workspaces

Stage	Prepare in StoryForge	Main output	Before adoption
P00 Brief	Ideas, length, genre, exclusions	Brief, decisions	Faithful to author goal?
P01 Inspiration	Notes, references, images, fragments	Idea cards, combinations	Mechanisms retained, fingerprints removed?
P02 Positioning	Genre, readers, experience	Promises, differentiation	Concrete and fulfillable?
P03 Core	Concepts, characters, world ideas	Conflict, premise, thematic question	Sustained choices/consequences?
P04 Research	Questions, rules, fact requirements	Boundaries, conditions, plot effects	Facts separate from assumptions?
P05 World	Core, geography, institutions, powers	Causal chains, texture, limits	Affects choices?
P06 Characters	Core, world pressure, drafts	Drives, relationships, arcs, states	Behavioral evidence?
P07 Plot engine	Goals, conflict, storylines	Escalation, information, collisions	Choices rather than coincidence?
P08 Structure	Core, arcs, ending	Turns, climax, payoff route	Serves this story?
P09 Length branches	Structure, delivery	Volumes, short compression, serial plans	Only applicable rules enabled?
P10 Chapters/scenes	Task, states, foreshadowing, emotion	Tasks, cards, titles	Clear change per scene?
P11 Prose	Plans, beats, continuity, style	Opening, continuation, dialogue, action, narration	Respects facts/states?
P12 Continuity	Prose and known facts	Summary, handoff, diffs, timeline	Evidence for every change?
P13 Macro revision	Outline, summaries, prose, facts	Diagnosis, priorities, route	Diagnose/confirm before rewrite?
P14 Language	Selected prose, goal, style	Scene/dialogue/viewpoint/pacing edits	Within allowed scope?
P15 Readers	Opening, excerpt, promises	Comprehension, gaps, risks	Simulation treated as risk, not fact?
P16 Packaging	Core, outline, summaries	Titles, blurbs, synopsis, tags	Accurate promises/spoiler control?
P17 Management	Prompt, I/O, adoption, feedback	Review, comparison, tests	Upgrade supported by varied cases?

3. Minimum prose context

Prioritize material directly related to the chapter:

1. Chapter task and beats.
2. Prior ending, handoff, previous plan reconciliation.
3. Recent summaries and relevant distant prose excerpts.
4. Present characters, relationships, states, confirmed facts.
5. Relevant rules, places, items, ability limits.
6. Foreshadowing/storylines to advance or avoid paying off early.
7. Time, action order, important item ownership.
8. Author style and necessary character-language examples.

If excessive, rank by chapter relevance, certainty, impact of mistakes. Do not retain only recent text or indiscriminately send the whole work.

4. Four Prompt types

Generation

Generate candidates, check structure/facts/format, then let authors adopt. For core, worlds, characters, outlines, prose.

Extraction

Every result must trace to prose evidence; list conflicts separately. For summaries, states, items, timeline, foreshadowing.

Diagnosis

Default to problems, evidence, impact, repair direction—not direct factual changes. For structure, continuity, reader validation.

Revision

Preserve original, specify goal/scope, compare differences, then confirm writeback. For restructuring, scenes, language.

5. Recommended routes

New longform

P00 → P02 → P03 → P05/P06/P07 cycle → P08 → P09L → P10/P11/P12 cycle → P13/P14/P15 → P16.

Serial longform

Enable P09R within longform. Serial parameters affect rewards, breaks, production rhythm, not character logic, world rules, prose facts.

Short fiction

P00 → P01/P03 → P09S → simplified P10 → P11 → P14/P15 → P16.

Existing-prose revision

P13 macro diagnosis → P12 continuity audit → P14 targeted revision → P15 reading validation → P16 packaging.

6. Adoption principles

1. Confirmed prose outranks old plans and genre conventions.
2. Explicit author decisions outrank AI candidates.
3. Confirm structured results by character, relationship, foreshadowing, timeline, etc.; do not use one free-text blob to modify many areas.
4. Conflicts, gaps, uncertainty go to review, not automatic facts.
5. Preserve prior versions before important prose/settings writeback for comparison/reversal.
6. For multiple worlds/timelines/viewpoints, verify the correct world, time, and character scope.

7. Common mistakes

• Batch chapters before stabilizing the core.
• Sending all settings, characters, history to every prose call.
• Concurrent tasks modifying the same character/chapter.
• Writing diagnosis suggestions as facts.
• Enabling longform, short, and serial rules together.
• Checking attractive wording but not causality, continuity, ownership.
• Revising prose without updating states, timeline, future plans.

8. Completion standard

A call is complete only when input scope is clear, format complete, no unauthorized factual changes occurred, conflicts are marked, scope/ownership are correct, the author chose adoption or rejection, and downstream information has been synchronized.