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459 entries · 13 categories

Creative arts

Fiction, poetry, screenwriting, music, image generation, worldbuilding, visual art, photography, life writing, video generation, nonfiction books, comics and the performing arts.

434 prompts, 13 personas, 12 workflows

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Fiction

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  • Build suspense in a scene
    PromptFiction

    Revises a scene to build suspense and dread through pacing, withheld information, sensory detail and the questions the reader carries, explaining each change. Use when a tense scene reads flat.

  • Check story continuity
    PromptFiction

    Finds continuity errors across chapters (names, timelines, physical details, objects, who knows what, world rules) and lists them by location with quotes. Use before beta readers or submission.

  • Co-write a story turn by turn
    PromptFiction

    Co-writes a story with the user one turn at a time, adding a paragraph or two, offering real choices and keeping characters, facts and tone consistent. Use for collaborative play or drafting.

  • Critique a fiction draft
    PromptFiction

    Gives developmental feedback on a fiction draft covering point of view, pacing, stakes, character and dialogue, prioritised and without rewriting the author's prose. Use between drafts.

Poetry

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  • Analyse a poem
    PromptPoetry

    Analyses a poem's meaning, form, imagery, sound and context, and offers more than one reading, each supported by evidence from the lines. Use when studying, teaching or reading a poem closely.

  • Audit the metre and rhyme of your poem
    PromptPoetry

    Scans your own metrical poem line by line, separates real faults from accepted variations, checks the rhyme scheme and offers sense-keeping fixes only for the lines that break.

  • Chapbook track
    WorkflowPoetry

    Takes a pile of your poems to a finished chapbook manuscript, from finding the core to filling gaps, ordering, front and back matter and choosing where to send it, pausing at each step.

  • Critique a poem
    PromptPoetry

    Gives close-reading feedback on a poem covering imagery, line breaks, sound and compression, then poses questions for revision instead of rewriting it. Use on a draft you want to push further.

Screenwriting

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  • Adapt a story for the screen

    Plans a screen adaptation of a story, book or real event, deciding what to keep, cut and externalise, the new structure and a sample scene, with a rights check. Use before adapting source material.

  • Cut a script's page count

    Plans how to bring an overlong script down to a target page count, from structural cuts to scene trims to line-level tightening, without cheating the format. Use when a draft runs long.

  • Develop a TV series concept

    Develops a TV series concept into pitch-ready material with logline, series engine, characters, season-one arc, episode ideas and tone references. Use before writing a pilot or a pitch deck.

  • Feature screenplay track

    Takes a feature film idea through logline, beat sheet, scene outline, first ten pages and a rewrite plan, stopping for the writer's approval at each step. Use when starting a feature screenplay.

Music

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  • Analyse a song's structure
    PromptMusic

    Analyses a song's sections, hook placement, chord movement, rhyme scheme, prosody and dynamics to show why it works, with lessons and exercises for your own writing. Use to study songs.

  • Build a sound kit for AI music generation
    PromptMusic

    Builds a reusable sound kit for AI music generation with fixed genre and mood tags, instrumentation, tempo ranges and words to avoid, so a creator's tracks sound like one artist.

  • Critique a finished lyric draft
    PromptMusic

    Gives a songwriter a one-pass critique of a lyric draft covering hook, point of view, imagery, cliches, rhyme and prosody, with line references and options, without rewriting the song.

  • Explain a music theory concept
    PromptMusic

    Explains a music theory concept such as modes, cadences, secondary dominants or voice leading at the right level, with spelled-out examples on your instrument, songs to hear it in and exercises.

Image generation

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Worldbuilding

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  • Build a magic system

    Builds a magic or technology system with a source, rules, costs and limits, stress-tests it for exploits, and lists the story conflicts it creates. Use for fiction or tabletop settings.

  • Build a series bible

    Compiles a series bible from drafts or notes (characters, places, world rules, timeline, terminology, open threads), citing sources and flagging every contradiction. Use for novel series and TV.

  • Build a world timeline

    Builds a fictional world's history as eras and pivotal events with causes, lasting consequences and contested memories that feed the present-day story's conflict. Use for novels, games and campaigns.

  • Create a fictional language

    Sketches a fictional language that fits its culture, with sounds, romanisation, word shapes, core grammar, a starter lexicon and glossed sample phrases, at the depth your story or game needs.

Visual art

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  • Art series track
    WorkflowVisual art

    Develops a cohesive series or body of work in gated steps: concept, studies, series rules, a production plan, editing and sequencing the pieces, and presenting the series to show or sell.

  • Assess a reference photo

    Checks whether a reference photo will make a good drawing or painting: light, values, focal point, distortion and missing information, what to change, and whether you have the right to use it.

  • Choose art supplies

    Recommends a starter or upgrade set of art supplies for a medium and budget, explaining which items change the result, which to skip and the order to upgrade in.

  • Critique an artwork

    Critiques a drawing or painting from an image or description for composition, value, colour, drawing and intent, ranks what to fix, and sets one focused exercise. Use for honest, usable feedback.

Photography

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  • Answer a photo usage request

    Helps a photographer answer someone who wants to use their photo, working out the use, the terms to offer, how to set a fee and a reply that says yes, yes with conditions, or no.

  • Choose camera gear

    Recommends cameras, lenses and accessories for a photographer's genres and budget, starting from what limits their photos now, with what to skip and an upgrade path.

  • Choose camera settings

    Recommends starting camera or phone settings for a specific shooting situation, explains the exposure trade-offs behind them, and gives fixes for blur, noise, wrong exposure or colour.

  • Critique a photograph

    Critiques a photograph for impact, light, composition, moment, technique, processing and story against the photographer's intent, ranks three improvements and sets one assignment.

Life writing

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  • Break a genealogy brick wall

    Analyses an ancestor you cannot trace further, re-reads the evidence you have, sets out competing hypotheses and plans targeted searches including relatives, neighbours and associates.

  • Build a life timeline

    Turns scattered memories, dates and documents about one life into a dated timeline with ages, anchors from public events, conflicts flagged and gaps to fill, for memoir or a life story.

  • Caption family photos

    Writes captions and short stories for family photos, slides or an album from what you know about each one, marking what is unknown and listing who to ask before the knowledge is lost.

  • Check a memoir for privacy risks

    Reviews a memoir draft before sharing or publishing for passages that expose or accuse identifiable real people, ranks the risks and offers ways to handle each. Not legal advice.

Video generation

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  • AI short film track

    Takes a short film made with generated video from idea to final cut in gated steps covering script, look bible, shot prompts, generation review, continuity fixes, sound and edit checks.

  • AI video director

    Director for generated video who thinks in shots, coverage and continuity, plans around what models do badly and changes one thing per take. Use for ongoing generated video projects.

  • Animate property listing photos

    Plans gentle camera-move clips from real property listing photos without changing rooms, views or condition, labelling any virtual staging and checking local advertising rules.

  • Animate an old family photo

    Plans a gentle, respectful animation of an old family photograph, choosing small motions that keep faces recognisable, restoring first, and labelling the result so it is never mistaken for footage.

Nonfiction books

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  • Answer a copyeditor's queries

    Works through a copyeditor's queries and changes on a book manuscript, proposing accept, stet or revise for each with a short reply, and collects the decisions for the style sheet.

  • Build a back-of-book index

    Builds a back-of-book index from page-numbered text with main headings, subheadings, cross-references and consistent terms to the chosen style, and flags the terms that need an editor's decision.

  • Build a story bank for a nonfiction book

    Turns an author's notes, talks and memories into a story bank for a nonfiction book, with each story's point, permissions status and best chapter, so ideas get illustrated and no story is used twice.

  • Choose a book's categories and keywords

    Chooses subject categories and retailer search keywords for a nonfiction book from what readers actually type and browse, with a primary category, fallbacks and the checks to run in the live stores.

Comics and graphic novels

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  • Adapt a story into a comic

    Adapts a prose story or chapter into a comic, deciding what to show, cut or compress, mapping scenes to a page budget, and scripting the first pages to prove the approach. Use before a full script.

  • Comics editor

    Comics editor who develops scripts and pages with creators, judging clarity, pacing and drawability first, and gives ranked, concrete notes. Use as an ongoing editor for comics, manga and webcomics.

  • Convert a print comic to vertical scroll

    Converts print comic pages into a vertical-scroll episode, with a panel map, scroll gaps for timing, panels that need re-cropping or redrawing, lettering changes and a phone-reading check.

  • Critique a comic page

    Critiques a drawn comic page for storytelling clarity, including reading path, staging, panel transitions, acting and lettering flow, ranks what to fix and sets one revision exercise.

Performing arts

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  • Acting coach

    Acts as an acting coach who works from the text and playable actions, with concrete notes for scenes, auditions and roles. Use for rehearsal help or audition prep.

  • Break down a scene for an actor

    Breaks a scene or sides into given circumstances, objective, obstacles and beats with playable action verbs. Use when preparing a scene for class, rehearsal or audition.

  • Build a costume plot

    Builds a costume plot from a script, showing each character's looks scene by scene, quick changes with the time available, pieces to source or make, and a running order for wardrobe.

  • Build a props list

    Builds a props list from a script, with every hand prop, set dressing and consumable by scene, who uses it, pre-sets and props tables, duplicates and safety notes for weapons, food and fire.