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.
19 prompts
- WorldNew
Magic or power system: costs and limits first
Designing a power system by what it cannot do before what it can.
{{world}}{{core}} - Web novelNew
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.
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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.
Each prompt maps to a SparkLore studio action (continue, scene, brainstorm, character, title, synopsis). Prompts you like here give much longer and more consistent results inside the studio, where they run against your story bible and manuscript.
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