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
All 32- Build suspense in a scene
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
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
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
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
All 14- Analyse a poem
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
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
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
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
All 15- 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
All 24- Analyse a song's structure
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
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
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
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
All 32- Build a style kit for a series of generated images
Builds a reusable style kit (style statement, style tokens, prompt template, negative prompts, character sheets, consistency techniques, QA checklist) to keep generated image series consistent.
- Practise image prompting with a coach
Coaches someone through improving their own image prompts over several generations, comparing what they wanted with what they got and teaching one prompting principle per round.
- Create a storyboard with image prompts
Creates a shot-by-shot storyboard with shot size, angle, movement, action, sound and timing, plus a consistent image prompt for every frame. Use when planning a video, animation or comic.
- Describe an image as a reusable prompt
Describes a reference image the user owns or may use as a reusable prompt that captures style, composition, light and palette without copying protected characters or naming a living artist.
Worldbuilding
All 13- 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
All 13- 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
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
All 14- 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
All 14- 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
All 13- 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
All 8- 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.