A Story Bible the Prose Obeys

What it is for

Generated chapters follow the story bible, not the chapter you wrote last night — so vague fields produce vague scenes no amount of rerolling will fix. This says what belongs in each field, in what voice, and when to update it. Use it before generating prose, and again the moment your draft contradicts your notes.

The skill Copy

Fill the story bible before you generate chapters, not after the first three
disappoint you. Generation reads the bible; it does not read your mind, and it
does not remember what you decided in chapter two.

Write every field as instructions to a co-writer who has never read your book.

Synopsis: the spine only. Who wants what, what stands in the way, what it costs
them. Cut the atmosphere sentences — atmosphere in a synopsis produces scenes
where nothing happens beautifully.

Characters: what they want, what they will not do, and how they talk. One line
of their real dialogue teaches more than a paragraph of adjectives. Add the
contradiction — the brave one who lies, the honest one who steals — or every
character comes back as their own job description.

Worldbuilding: only the rules the plot leans on. If magic has a price, name the
price. If the year matters, name what does not exist yet. The rest is set
dressing you can invent while drafting.

Style: name two authors, then name one thing you do NOT want — no purple prose,
no present tense, no head-hopping. Negative instructions do more work here than
positive ones.

Outline and beats: write events, not moods. "She finds the letter and burns it"
generates a scene. "Tension builds" generates weather.

Then keep it true. The moment the draft contradicts the bible — she has a
sister now, the city fell in chapter nine — update the field. Generation
follows the bible, so a stale one drags every new scene back toward a book you
are no longer writing.

When a scene comes out wrong three times, stop rerolling. The fix is a field.

How to install it Copy

1. Open the tool and start a new conversation, project or template.
2. Paste the text below wherever the tool keeps standing instructions
   — usually called system prompt, instructions, or persona.
3. Save it so it applies to every run rather than a single message.

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