Love the content! I’m thinking about making a series of short stories that all take place in the same fantasy world. Would love to hear your thoughts on how to best achieve this in Novelcrafter.
So, if you're building multiple stories in the same world/universe, you'll want to create the story world first. Once you've done that, you can ask the LLM to suggest some short stories that can take place in the world you've created. This is similar to what I did in one of my Codices. Here is an example of one of my prompts: "I would love your help coming up with ideas for different instant love paranormal romance series set in the world of [World Name]. Each series should have five books, each focusing on a different couple. Each series should have something in common. One of the characters from each couple should be connected… they either work at the same place, they are related, or they are of a similar paranormal race. Each story also must include my primary tropes." The World Name and Primary Tropes were Codex entries in the example above.
You're most welcome! We'll start writing the story a little later this week. I wanted to allow people the time to create their Codex, whether they are writing the same story or something else.
I don't see any changes really. The big one is when you're generating the ideas you need to change the word count. Because Angie only used a guide for 6,000 word novel so when it broke down the save the cat steps it based it on that 6,000 word limit. So if you are writing ing a book that says it has like 100,000 words you need to let the AI know that when you generating the idea and you use the same chat or you generated the idea to do all the other work so that the AI continually cycles and has reference points. And then when you go to do the plot for like save the cat and we're the percentages are those will change based on your workout. Also you might want to pick up a copy of save the cat and take a look at it if you haven't already.
For a full-length novel, you'll need more characters and locations, and you'll definitely want more than four scenes. You'd go deeper into the characters' backgrounds and add some subplots, like the romantic subplot I discarded. The Basement Kraken is one of the premises that no one was interested in during the voting, so I started writing it. I've got 13 chapters with 2 to 4 scenes in each. When done, it will be around 50k.
Everything worked except for the template. Trust me I am working it out. Ahem, looking at you claude. 😂 The monster in my story which it was a ghost ended up with a character slot. The house ended up with a location spot. But it could have been a character too.
I ended up making my monster a character, and a house could be either a character or a location, depending on its role in the story. Let me know if you need any help!
Love the content!
I’m thinking about making a series of short stories that all take place in the same fantasy world.
Would love to hear your thoughts on how to best achieve this in Novelcrafter.
So, if you're building multiple stories in the same world/universe, you'll want to create the story world first. Once you've done that, you can ask the LLM to suggest some short stories that can take place in the world you've created.
This is similar to what I did in one of my Codices.
Here is an example of one of my prompts:
"I would love your help coming up with ideas for different instant love paranormal romance series set in the world of [World Name].
Each series should have five books, each focusing on a different couple. Each series should have something in common. One of the characters from each couple should be connected… they either work at the same place, they are related, or they are of a similar paranormal race. Each story also must include my primary tropes."
The World Name and Primary Tropes were Codex entries in the example above.
@@ByteSizedBooksmith you’re the best! Thank you 🤩 🙏
This is a lot of fun! And I've learned a lot about Novelcrafter, too. Thanks, Angie!
You're most welcome!
We'll start writing the story a little later this week. I wanted to allow people the time to create their Codex, whether they are writing the same story or something else.
What changes to the codex would I need to use this for a full-length novel?
I don't see any changes really.
The big one is when you're generating the ideas you need to change the word count. Because Angie only used a guide for 6,000 word novel so when it broke down the save the cat steps it based it on that 6,000 word limit.
So if you are writing ing a book that says it has like 100,000 words you need to let the AI know that when you generating the idea and you use the same chat or you generated the idea to do all the other work so that the AI continually cycles and has reference points. And then when you go to do the plot for like save the cat and we're the percentages are those will change based on your workout.
Also you might want to pick up a copy of save the cat and take a look at it if you haven't already.
For a full-length novel, you'll need more characters and locations, and you'll definitely want more than four scenes. You'd go deeper into the characters' backgrounds and add some subplots, like the romantic subplot I discarded.
The Basement Kraken is one of the premises that no one was interested in during the voting, so I started writing it. I've got 13 chapters with 2 to 4 scenes in each. When done, it will be around 50k.
Everything worked except for the template.
Trust me I am working it out. Ahem, looking at you claude. 😂
The monster in my story which it was a ghost ended up with a character slot. The house ended up with a location spot. But it could have been a character too.
Tremendous.
I ended up making my monster a character, and a house could be either a character or a location, depending on its role in the story.
Let me know if you need any help!