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Brainstorming request: Generate five complications that follow causally from this protagonist choosing to hide the letter; do not add new magic rules or characters.
8 AI Prompts for Authors Examples
Use these examples to study structure, specificity, tone, and variation. They are demonstrations—not claims about a real person or organization unless the example itself makes that explicit.
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What to notice in the examples
Useful author prompts define the writing stage, relevant context, constraints, desired output, and what the model must not invent; they ask for options or diagnosis where uncertainty is high and keep human review responsible for voice, facts, citations, rights, and final creative decisions.
- Task: state the exact writing problem rather than asking the model to make the book better.
- Context: provide only the scene, premise, outline, audience, or excerpt needed for the task.
- Constraints: preserve facts, voice, POV, genre promises, or length limits that must not change.
- Output: request a useful format such as questions, alternatives, diagnostics, tables, or ranked options.
- Verification: require uncertainty flags and independently check factual or source-based claims.
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Scene diagnosis: Identify where tension falls in this 900-word scene and explain whether the cause is repeated information, weak stakes, unclear goals, or pacing; do not rewrite yet.
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Character consistency: Compare these two excerpts and list any differences in diction, sentence rhythm, risk tolerance, or stated values that make the character voice feel inconsistent.
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Outline stress test: For each major beat, state the protagonist decision, consequence, and unresolved pressure; flag beats that are events without a meaningful choice.
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Research planning: List the factual claims in this historical-fiction scene that require verification and suggest the type of primary or authoritative source needed for each; do not invent source titles.
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Query-letter review: Evaluate whether the pitch names protagonist, goal, obstacle, stakes, and distinctive premise; identify missing information before suggesting wording changes.
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Revision alternatives: Give three ways to compress this paragraph while preserving the narrator’s dry humor and every factual detail; explain what each version sacrifices.
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Continuity audit: Using only the supplied chapter notes, flag timeline, age, location, object, and relationship inconsistencies; mark uncertain points instead of filling gaps.
Keep the underlying decision or pattern, then replace the subject, evidence, relationship, constraints, and tone with details that belong to your situation. If your final line still works after swapping only one noun, it may be too close to the example.