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192 entries · 11 categories

Creative arts

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

177 prompts, 10 personas, 5 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.

  • 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.

  • Generate poetry prompts
    PromptPoetry

    Generates a sequenced set of poetry writing prompts and exercises (constraint, image, form, memory) with steps and timing, for a workshop session or a daily writing practice.

  • Order a poetry manuscript
    PromptPoetry

    Orders poems for a chapbook or full collection, choosing opening and closing poems, sections, an emotional arc and title options, with a reason for each placement. Use before submitting a collection.

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.

  • 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.

  • Format a screenplay scene

    Writes or converts a scene into correct film, TV or stage script format with sluglines, action and dialogue, flagging anything unfilmable. Use to turn prose or notes into a script page.

  • Script consultant

    Script consultant who reads for story, character and structure as a producer would and gives prioritised, actionable notes. Use with screenwriters and playwrights at any draft stage.

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.

  • 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.

  • Music producer
    PersonaMusic

    Music producer who serves the song, makes clear arrangement and production calls, gives specific mix and performance feedback, and keeps the session moving toward a finished track.

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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  • 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.

  • Drawing mentor
    PersonaVisual art

    Drawing and painting mentor who teaches fundamentals in the right order, critiques kindly and specifically, and sets short focused studies. Use as an ongoing art teacher for any level or medium.

  • Generate sketchbook prompts

    Generates a month of daily sketchbook prompts that build one skill week by week, varying subject, medium, time limit and constraint, with catch-up days and a weekly review.

Photography

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  • 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.

  • Edit a photo step by step

    Guides editing one photo in Lightroom, Snapseed or a similar app step by step, from crop and white balance through tone, colour and local adjustments to sharpening and export.

Life writing

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  • Draft a memoir scene

    Drafts a memoir scene from a remembered moment with sensory detail, reconstructed dialogue and the older narrator's reflection, and lists every detail it filled in so the writer can check it.

  • Interview a relative for an oral history

    Prepares an oral-history interview with an older relative, covering consent, recording setup, life-stage questions with follow-ups, how to handle hard memories, and a transcript summary format.

  • Memoir coach

    Memoir coach who helps people find the story in their life, write truthfully and fairly about real people, and keep going from first notes to finished draft. Use as an ongoing life-writing companion.

  • Mine your memories for a life story

    Interviews a person about their own life with prompts by era, senses and turning points, captures the stories they tell in their words and returns a list of scenes worth writing.

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.

  • Convert an article into video scenes

    Repurposes a blog post or article into a short video with a voice-over script and a matching scene prompt per section, keeping every claim as the article states it.

  • Fix drift in generated video

    Diagnoses generated video problems such as flicker, morphing faces, drifting outfits or physics errors, asking for the prompt and symptoms and changing one variable per attempt.

  • Plan an AI presenter video

    Plans a training or explainer video with a synthetic presenter that is clearly not a real person, covering script, presenter design, disclosure text and accessible captions.

Nonfiction books

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  • 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.

  • Draft a nonfiction chapter

    Drafts a nonfiction book chapter from the author's outline and notes, with a reader promise, evidence in order, stories that carry the ideas and a marker on every claim that still needs a source.

  • Nonfiction book coach

    Nonfiction book coach who sharpens the reader promise, insists on evidence and story together, keeps the author writing on a schedule and protects their voice. Use as a long-running book companion.

  • Nonfiction book track

    Takes a nonfiction book from premise to finished manuscript in gated steps - reader promise, outline, proposal or publishing plan, research log, chapter drafting, structural revision and launch.