Here are five steps for writing a story: Find inspiration, brainstorm ideas, outline the plot, write a first draft, and refine it through revision and editing. Every story typically includes five key components—setting, plot, conflict, characters, and theme. While stories can take countless fo...
ArXiv-2024 Navigating the Path of Writing: Outline-guided Text Generation with Large Language Models [paper] [Yukyung Lee, Soonwon Ka, Bokyung Son, Pilsung Kang, Jaewook Kang] EMNLP Findings-2023 Improving Pacing in Long-Form Story Planning [paper] [Yichen Wang, Kevin Yang, Xiaoming Liu,...
Human written story description:You describe your story outline, writing style, characters etc in a story prompt (see an example). Run GPTAuthor:As described below, choosing model, temperature, and number of chapters to write. AI generated synopsis:Given the story prompt, GPTAuthor uses ChatGPT...
Let’s put the concept of the climax in a story to practice using the following creative writing exercise. Some of the best stories have come from a writer knowing the climax but not being sure how they got there. With that idea, start by writing five sentences to fill in the blanks ba...
Testers provide broad thinking for exceptions, edge cases, and other unexpected ways users may interact with systemCollaborative story writing ensures all perspectives are addressed and everyone agrees on the story’s behavior with the results represented in the story’s description, acceptance criteria,...
not just love stories. While I usually only recommend having one protagonist, because it drastically increases the complexity and difficulty of the writing process, love stories are the only type that I'm begrudgingly ok with having two protagonists, the couple. There are also some common archetyp...
Some writers may even find themselves writing an outline that becomes more and more detailed until eventually it’s a draft. If that’s you, I recommend outlining in the same narrative style as your draft. If your outline is in present tense and your draft is supposed to be past tense, ...
•StoryCraft New Edition$39 –is a complete re-imagining of the StoryCraft program, offering to writers a complete writing platform with as-you-write guidance that includes a new and dazzling interface with powerful enhancements to the original for character and plot development based on the Her...
Short Story Writing 1. Choose a Focused Topic:Select a central idea or theme that you can explore within the constraints of a short story. 2. Develop a Strong Plot:Outline a clear beginning, middle, and end. Ensure your story has a central conflict and resolution. ...
Narratology and Writing Instructions for Heroic Characters Related to both plot diagram and types of literary conflict, the ”Hero’s Journey” structure is a recurring pattern of stages many heroes undergo over the course of their stories. Joseph Campbell, an American mythologist, writer, and lect...