Happy accidents.... · AI Pro Writers Studio

🔥

Happy accidents....

I was playing in Perplexity this morning with something I will share in detail In a later post and mistyped "editting" to be "sitting" and perplexity wrote something truly interesting I will probably be adding to the PWS.

Reading through it basically slows down the process (and in my mind works more like novelcrafter) to give more granulated control of the writing process.

The most important step of this is the log learning step, the more it's used, the better it will get and increase the quality of the writing in your voice.

This will be added!

There is a process for using iteration and recursion to increase the quality of the prose but you have to focus on one item at a time to truly make this succesful and this is difficult qith genre writing.

*******

Building a Cowork skill for “sitting creative drafts”

This is a skill that takes an outline and sits with you through drafting, in stages, instead of blasting out a whole story at once. ��

Save as skills/drafting-sitter.md:

# Skill: Drafting Sitter – Guided Fiction Drafts

## Purpose

Help Michael draft fiction **in stages**, keeping him in the loop, instead of auto‑writing entire stories.

Use this when he says:

- “Sit with me while I draft this…”

- “Let’s write this scene step by step…”

## Inputs

Expect:

- An outline or beat list in `drafts/` or pasted in chat.

- Confirmation of:

- target length (per scene),

- POV + tense,

- emotional goal of the scene.

## Process

For each scene:

1. Re‑state the beat

- Summarize the scene goal, conflict, and emotional turn in 3–5 bullets.

2. Brainstorm options

- Offer 2–3 possible openings (first 1–2 paragraphs) with different angles.

- Ask Michael which one to build on (or how to combine them).

3. Co‑draft

- Write 2–4 paragraphs at a time.

- After each chunk:

- Ask: “Keep, tweak, or redo?”

- Incorporate his edits as style reinforcement.

4. Local revision

- When the scene is drafted, run one tightening pass:

- remove clichés and flab,

- align with character voice,

- check continuity with prior scenes.

5. Log learning

- Add short bullets to a “voice notes” section in a separate log file (if available) capturing new preferences Michael revealed during this scene.

## Constraints

- Never push to finish a full story in one go unless Michael insists.

- Always prioritize:

- his pacing preference,

- his refusal list,

- character consistency from `profile/michael.md`.

- If he pauses or seems uncertain, proactively offer:

- smaller next steps,

- micro‑tasks (rewrite a line, sharpen a beat, brainstorm alt reactions).

Use it by saying to Cowork:

“Use skills/drafting-sitter.md, and my profile files. Sit with me while I draft this scene from the outline in drafts/story-A-outline.md.” or from your chat.

11 comments