Genre craft Guides

This library is written for fiction authors who use AI as a drafting partner — not as a replacement for judgment. Each published article is a full craft piece: copy-paste prompts, revision checklists, genre-specific failure modes, and links to free writing tools. Thin stubs stay unpublished, and the beginner handbook lives on a separate page so this hub is not a duplicate of /writing-tips. Start with a topic below, or search for a workflow you can use in the next writing session.

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The meet, attraction, conflict, and HEA beats romance readers expect—and the specific places AI models skip emotional work or rush intimacy.

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Design magic with hard limits, costs, and failure modes before you prompt AI to write spells—otherwise every problem becomes a new power.

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