Fiction & screenplay prompt library
One prompt for each place writers actually get stuck. Fill in the variables to get a finished prompt, copy it anywhere, or run it in SparkLore for a quick preview.
69 prompts
- Editing
Dialogue tag cleanup: 'said' versus action beats
Every line comes with 'he shouted' or 'she said, laughing'.
{{manuscript}} - Editing
Repetition finder: words, sentence shapes, paragraph openers
When the same words and sentence shapes start to show. Authors are blind to their own.
{{manuscript}} - Title & synopsis
Back-cover copy: hide the ending, leave the question
Reader-facing copy for the back cover or store page. The opposite of the editor's synopsis: hide the ending.
{{summary}}{{audience}} - Title & synopsis
Series naming: main title plus a rule for volume subtitles
Naming a multi-volume or seasonal series. Naming only book one gets you stuck at book three.
{{series}}{{volumes}} - Title & synopsis
Eight short literary titles (two words or fewer)
Titles for literary fiction or magazine submissions: no explanation, only an afterimage.
{{summary}}{{motifs}} - Screenplay
Scene purpose audit: what breaks without it
The script ran long. Test every scene by asking what breaks if it goes.
{{manuscript}} - Screenplay
Halve the dialogue, keep the information
The scene's dialogue is long and explanatory. Delete what the actor does not need to say.
{{manuscript}} - Screenplay
Write a scene in US screenplay format (INT./EXT.)
For international contests or English pitches: the scene in standard US format and conventions.
{{scene}}{{characters}} - Critique
Genre promise check: are the expected scenes there
Before the finale or at an arc's end: which scenes the genre promised are missing.
{{genre}}{{summary}} - Screenplay
Three cold opens: the first ninety seconds
The first scene of episode one: candidates that hold the viewer before the title card.
{{premise}}{{tone}} - Critique
Cliche detector for this genre
Filter out the lines and beats that make genre readers say 'this again?'.
{{manuscript}}{{genre}} - Critique
Pacing map: the tension curve scene by scene
Someone said 'the middle drags' and you cannot see where.
{{manuscript}} - World
A day in the world: test the setting with money, food and sleep
You have empires and prophecies but no idea what the hero eats or where they sleep.
{{world}}{{resident}} - World
Historical court rule sheet: address, movement, taboo
Writing a palace drama (historical or fusion) and the forms of address keep wobbling.
{{setting}}{{fidelity}} - Character
Character arc: want versus need
The protagonist ends the story unchanged. Pin the arc to five scenes.
{{character}}{{want}}{{need}} - Character
Supporting cast audit: merge overlapping characters
The cast passed fifteen and readers mix up the names.
{{cast}} - Character
Character voice sheet for dialogue consistency
Around chapter fifty the voices blur. Pin each character's speech on one page.
{{character}}{{background}}{{situation}} - Character
The villain's case: a world where they are right
The antagonist is evil because the plot needs one. Build one the reader is briefly persuaded by.
{{villain}}{{deeds}}{{hero_belief}} - Outline
Five endings: same climax, different price
The climax is set but you do not know how it ends.
{{climax}}{{want}}{{need}} - Outline
Weaving a subplot into the main plot
The romance / family / workplace subplot feels bolted on.
{{main}}{{sub}} - Outline
Five midpoint reversals
The middle sags. Generate events that change the protagonist's goal.
{{so_far}}{{goal}} - Outline
Synopsis to per-chapter beats
You have a synopsis but not the beats for the chapter you are writing today.
{{manuscript}}{{chapter}}{{pov}} - Dialogue
Hide exposition in dialogue (no 'as you know')
You must convey a world rule or past event without characters telling each other what they both know.
{{info}}{{characters}} - Dialogue
Three-voice distinction test
Cover the speaker tags and you cannot tell who is talking. Force the voices apart.
{{c1}}{{c2}}{{c3}} - Dialogue
Subtext argument: nobody says the real reason
A fight between partners or colleagues that is about the dishes on the surface and something else underneath.
{{characters}}{{surface}}{{real}} - Describe
Weather as mood, without emotion words
A transition paragraph needs mood, and you refuse to write 'a gloomy rain fell'.
{{weather}}{{mood}}{{doing}} - Describe
Action clarity: who, where, what
The fight or chase is flashy but readers lose track of where everyone is.
{{manuscript}} - Describe
Three versions of a character's first appearance
The paragraph where a major character first appears. One detail instead of a features list.
{{character}}{{viewer}} - Rewrite
First person to close third person
You drafted in first person and decided on third. Not a find-and-replace; the distance changes.
{{manuscript}}{{name}} - Rewrite
Re-cut sentence rhythm
Every sentence is the same length, or long sentences run breathless.
{{manuscript}}{{mood}} - Rewrite
Cut 20% without losing meaning
The chapter is over length, or the prose sags.
{{manuscript}} - Rewrite
One expository paragraph into a scene
Turning a summary paragraph ('they had been friends for years') into a dramatized moment.
{{manuscript}} - Continue
Continue while raising tension one notch
The scene is going flat. Add pressure without inventing a new event.
{{manuscript}} - Continue
POV-locked continuation (close third person)
When continuations keep slipping into another character's head.
{{manuscript}}{{pov}} - Continue
Continue from mid-sentence (anti-repetition)
When continuations keep re-writing your last sentence or opening with a summary.
{{manuscript}} - Continue
Continue only up to the next beat
You know the next beat but not the sentences between. Give the target and stop there.
{{manuscript}}{{next_beat}} - Web novel
Designing the free-to-paid transition chapter
Where free chapters end and paid ones begin. Design the chapter that holds readers at the paywall.
{{premise}}{{free_last}}{{best_element}} - Title & synopsis
Three-line platform blurb plus five keywords
The blurb box on a platform's upload form. Identity, situation and payoff in three lines.
{{premise}}{{genre}} - Editing
Chapter continuity notes: what the next chapter must remember
Right after posting a chapter: extract the states the next chapter will get wrong (time, injuries, items, promises).
{{manuscript}} - Web novel
Cliffhanger bank: ten types for this specific story
Mid-serial, when every hook has become 'and then someone appeared'. Stockpile variety in advance.
{{premise}}{{status}}{{used}} - Outline
Sixty-panel webtoon breakdown from a chapter
Turning a web novel chapter into a webtoon storyboard: settle panel count and information flow before anyone draws.
{{manuscript}} - Continue
Open the next chapter without a recap
Your next chapter keeps opening with 'After what happened last time, I…'.
{{manuscript}} - Web novel
Romance-fantasy misunderstanding where both are right
The core scene of a misunderstanding romance, where the reader laughs instead of groaning.
{{heroine}}{{hero}}{{seed}} - Screenplay
Sixteen-episode drama structure: endings and four-episode pillars
A miniseries treatment: per-episode endings and the turn every four episodes in one table.
{{premise}}{{goal}}{{genre}} - Web novel
Academy ranking duel: how the underdog wins
The first duel in an academy story, where the underdog wins by thinking, not by a hidden power awakening.
{{protagonist}}{{opponent}}{{rules}} - World
Designing a status window that scares with words, not numbers
Choosing the status-window format for a system/dungeon story, without turning every screen into a stat table.
{{world}}{{quirk}} - Screenplay
Novel paragraph to drama script scene
Adapting prose to script: split narration into action and dialogue, turn interiority into behavior.
{{manuscript}} - Title & synopsis
Editor's synopsis in three paragraphs, ending included
A synopsis for submissions and contests: unlike a blurb, it tells the ending.
{{logline}}{{events}}{{ending}} - Web novel
Possession opening: three minutes in a stranger's body
Chapter one of a possession/transmigration story, without the 'I looked in the mirror and I was the villainess' cliche.
{{person}}{{body}}{{situation}} - Critique
Simulate ten reader comments
See the comment section before you post. Find the sentence readers will trip on.
{{manuscript}}{{genre}} - World
Magic or power system: costs and limits first
Designing a power system by what it cannot do before what it can.
{{world}}{{core}} - Web novel
Splitting a long draft into 5,000-character episodes
You wrote 5,000 words in one sitting and cannot see where the chapter breaks go.
{{manuscript}}{{target}} - Web novel
Hook table for a 16-episode arc
Planning the first 16-chapter arc of a serial: one table of why readers open each chapter and where you cut it.
{{premise}}{{genre}}{{arc_goal}} - Web novel
Twelve-point self-check for web novel chapter one
Before posting chapter one. An editor's read when you do not have an editor.
{{manuscript}}{{title}}{{target_length}} - Editing
Adverb and modifier filter
First pass of revision: count 'slowly', 'suddenly', 'very' and cut most of them.
{{manuscript}} - Character
Character profile built on one contradiction
Tired of filling twenty-field character sheets. Build the person on one contradiction.
{{role}}{{seed}} - Continue
Continue 300 words in the same voice
You are stuck and need the next paragraph. The baseline continue prompt.
{{manuscript}} - Describe
Describe a place with only two senses
Introducing a new location without the paragraph turning into a travel brochure.
{{place}}{{state}} - World
Find contradictions against the story bible
Cross-check a chapter against the bible. Past chapter thirty, run it weekly.
{{manuscript}}{{bible}} - Critique
First-page read: why an agent stops in three minutes
Before a contest or submission. No praise; only the point where a reader stops.
{{manuscript}}{{intended}} - Web novel
Five opening paragraphs for a first-person regression story
You are starting chapter one of a regression story and refuse to open with 'I opened my eyes.'
{{protagonist}}{{death_scene}}{{return_point}} - Outline
Logline to three acts in eight beats
You have one sentence and no structure. The first skeleton prompt to run.
{{logline}}{{format}} - Rewrite
Remove AI tells: eight fingerprints
After an AI-assisted draft, before anyone reads it. Remove the fingerprints readers punish.
{{manuscript}} - Dialogue
Reveal a relationship through dialogue alone
Let readers deduce a relationship (exes, siblings, boss and subordinate) with zero narration.
{{a}}{{b}}{{relationship}} - Screenplay
Rewrite an S# scene action-first (less dialogue, more behavior)
A K-drama scene runs on dialogue alone. Let the action lines carry it.
{{manuscript}} - Title & synopsis
Ten long, hooky web-novel titles
You need platform-style long titles that state the premise and the payoff in one line.
{{premise}}{{genre}} - Web novel
Three 300-character chapter-ending cliffhangers
The chapter is written but the ending fizzles. Replace only the final paragraph to make readers tap 'next'.
{{manuscript}}{{genre}} - Rewrite
Turn stated emotion into action
When 'he was angry' and 'she felt sad' appear in every paragraph.
{{manuscript}} - Screenplay
Twelve-word logline: five pitch versions
The one-liner on a contest form or pitch deck. Character, situation and irony inside a hard length cap.
{{summary}}
Why prompts need to be this specific
"Write me a novel" is not a prompt. A good one names exactly where the writer is stuck and says first what the model must not do. Every prompt here is built that way: no new characters, no recap, no emotion words. The constraints are what produce the quality.
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