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Compare the Events and Commit
You give the AI your recent story context, open threads, candidate events, and constraints. You then use the comparison to choose one event and define today's chapter target.
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Choose the Next Chapter Event
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15 min
Beginner
Creative Planning
Finish What You Started
Need to Compare Options
You compare up to five possible next events and choose the one that best follows from your manuscript's existing actions, conflicts, and promises.
We'll use them to write your prompt.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
Stop guessing what happens next.
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What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
Make Your Play
Choose the Next Chapter Event
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Summarize the important events leading into the next chapter and explain where the current chapter ends.
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List the conflicts, promises, questions, relationships, or decisions that still need attention.
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List two to five events you might place in the next chapter.
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Note any viewpoint, pacing, timeline, genre, character, or plot limits the next event must respect.
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What you'll do
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Compare the Events and Commit
You give the AI your recent story context, open threads, candidate events, and constraints. You then use the comparison to choose one event and define today's chapter target.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
You can summarize the last one or two chapters instead of sharing full pages. List two to five possible events, even if some feel weak. Run the prompt, accept one choice, and start writing from the final target.
Advanced instructions
You can include competing plot, character, and thematic needs in your constraints. Check whether the chosen event changes the story’s power balance, closes one possibility, or makes a later event unavoidable.
Use this when
You know several things that could happen next, but you can't tell which option belongs in the next chapter.
You'll need
- Recent events and chapter ending
- Open story threads
- Possible next events
- Story direction or constraints
You'll get
- One selected next event, a clear causal link to earlier events, an immediate consequence, and a one-sentence chapter target you can write from today.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- One selected next event, a clear causal link to earlier events, an immediate consequence, and a one-sentence chapter target you can write from today.
Examples
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