Insights
Practical research for better AI-assisted fiction.
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How to Write a Horror Story
A 7-step guide to writing horror: commit to one central wrongness, escalate through specificity, and avoid the five mistakes that defuse real dread.
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How to Write a Thriller Story
A 7-step guide to writing a thriller: build real pressure, escalate scene by scene, and avoid the five mistakes that let tension sag in the middle.
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How to Write an Adventure Story
A 7-step guide to writing an adventure story: set a deadline, choose an environmental obstacle, and avoid the five mistakes that stall most drafts.
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How to Write a Dystopian Story
A 7-step guide to writing a dystopian story: build a believable control system, ground it in one character, and avoid the mistakes that flatten most drafts.
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How to Write an Urban Fantasy Story
A 7-step guide to writing an urban fantasy story: ground magic in a mundane anchor, set clear rules, and avoid the mistakes that flatten most drafts.
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How to Write a Time Travel Story
A 7-step guide to writing a time travel story: set one clear rule, add a real limitation, and avoid the mistakes that unravel most time travel drafts.
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How to Write a Post-Apocalyptic Story
A 7-step guide to writing a post-apocalyptic story: name a concrete consequence, give your protagonist a goal beyond survival, and avoid five mistakes.
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How to Write a Cyberpunk Story
A 7-step guide to writing a cyberpunk story: ground a corporate-controlled world in one character's debt or body, and avoid the five mistakes that stall drafts.
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How to Write a Vampire Story
A 7-step guide to writing a vampire story: ground immortality in a personal cost, choose your subgenre's promise, and avoid the five mistakes that stall drafts.
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How to Write a Detective Story
A 7-step guide to writing a detective story: build a fair mystery, give your investigator a method with a cost, and avoid the five mistakes that stall drafts.
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How to Write a Ghost Story
A 7-step guide to writing a ghost story: give your haunting a resolvable need, build dread gradually, and avoid the five mistakes that stall most drafts.
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How to Write a Fairy Tale
A 7-step guide to writing a fairy tale: build a bargain with clear rules, choose what to subvert, and avoid the five mistakes that stall most drafts.