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61 lines
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type: think
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model: power
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PASS 1 — WRITE THE SCIENCE FICTION CHAPTER DRAFT
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Use the draft prompt below as your exact writing brief:
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{steps[0].text}
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Requirements:
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- Start with the FIRST LINE you planned — make it continue naturally from the previous chapter
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- If the draft prompt contains a line starting with "LOCKED PREVIOUS CHAPTER HOOK:",
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your FIRST LINE MUST directly resolve that hook — the reader expects the answer immediately
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- If the draft prompt contains a line starting with "AUTHOR'S INTENT:", treat it as a
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binding creative directive — your draft must satisfy that intent in full
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- Follow the KEY BEATS in order, but write with full scene depth — don't skip
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- All character names, alien species, and world terminology must be consistent with the bible/outline
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- Every dialogue exchange must be tight and voice-distinct
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- Show, don't tell — externalize emotion through action, detail, and dialogue
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- Every scene beat moves the story forward OR reveals character (no filler)
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- End with the CLOSING HOOK you planned
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- Match the prose style guide: {prose_style}
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- Target length: {chapter_target_words} words — write the FULL chapter, not a summary
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- ⚠️ DO NOT stop early. If you have not reached {chapter_target_words} words, continue
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writing — add interiority, sensory detail, extended dialogue beats, and scene transitions
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until you hit the target. Short chapters will be REJECTED in adjudication.
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DRAFTING DISCIPLINE — apply these on every page:
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- {prose_style} is a hard constraint, not decoration
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- Not every paragraph needs a memorable or quotable line — use functional connective prose
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- Let observation precede interpretation: show the moment before naming what it means
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- Avoid clustering aphorisms or thesis-style sentences back to back
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- Prefer scene motion over thesis delivery — action and dialogue carry meaning
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- Write ONE complete draft now. Do NOT self-polish. Reviewers will give feedback downstream.
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SCIENCE FICTION CRAFT RULES — these apply on every page:
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- WORLDBUILDING BY IMMERSION: Do not pause to explain your world. Characters live in it.
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Let technology, politics, and history emerge through action and dialogue, not exposition.
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"She scanned for temporal residue" tells us about the world without stopping to define it.
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- INTERNAL LOGIC IS NON-NEGOTIABLE: Your world's rules must be established and honored.
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If FTL travel has a cost, that cost appears on every jump. If psionics tire the user,
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fatigue is present. Consistency is the contract with the reader.
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- THE IDEA IS A CHARACTER: Science fiction ideas (the alien biology, the AI ethics
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dilemma, the political paradox) are as much a character as any person. Give the idea
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presence in every chapter — don't let it fade into backdrop.
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- SCALE WITHOUT LOSING THE HUMAN: The universe can be vast, the stakes cosmic — but anchor
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each chapter in one person's experience, one pair of hands, one heartbeat. The reader
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cannot feel interstellar scale; they CAN feel one soldier's fear before the breach.
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- SENSE OF WONDER: Every chapter should have at least one moment that enlarges the reader's
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imagination — a view, a revelation, a technology, a moral question — that makes the
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universe feel genuinely strange and genuinely real at the same time.
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- ALIEN AUTHENTICITY: Non-human characters must not be humans in costumes. Alien cognition,
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alien values, alien humor. If a species has a different relationship with time or memory,
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show it in their dialogue and choices.
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- PACING: Alternate tension with revelation. Each chapter should push the external plot
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forward AND deliver one new piece of world or character understanding.
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Output ONLY the draft chapter text.
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Start directly with the chapter title (e.g., "Chapter N: [Title]") and opening line.
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No commentary, no plan headers, no "Pass 1" label.
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