So usually I wouldn't share something like this - but I'm still testing so it's rewriting it. Yesterday I shared a premise of a story that I was putting into my N8N "First Draft from Premise/Form. Here it is again: A rule-obsessed HOA president dies unexpectedly… and is accidentally resurrected by a well-meaning but incompetent neighborhood necromancer. His soul splits: the fussy, hypercritical ghost version of him still tries to enforce the bylaws, while his zombie body rampages through the cul-de-sac breaking every rule he ever wrote. Now the necromancer and the ghost must team up to wrangle the zombie, restore order, and keep the HOA from imploding—all while discovering that sometimes chaos is exactly what a tightly wound spirit needs. Here is the output. It's not perfect - I hate POV switched in the same chapter (hopefully fixed the prompt so that won't happen) and I'm rewriting to make sure it's more "my style" https://docs.google.com/document/d/18LEb3GfCXvUfLtqzky17aYnTf_SANZMER6GubIRU-Ek/edit?usp=sharing Now the question is - would I release this? Not yet - but it's damn close. The main issues I have are the POV switching - it annoys me and makes it hard to do audiobooks with it for YouTube. We'll see what version 2 does after I go do stuff this morning (see? It's writing while I go somewhere else!) PS - this will be the workflow walk-through we do in an Advanced N8N class because it loops and parses information and all sorts of things.

I love em dashes. I hate what has become of them thanks to the anti AI crowd. Must I get rid of them? Gemini 3 said no. Claude also told me no. But those two have an obvious bias toward em dashes...

Because AI (Chat 5.2) insists that most people don't say the thing I typed and suggested the other. So I wanted to ask some actual humans.

What's the difference of a beat sheet and an outline and how important is it? Is a beat sheet what gets everyone their detailed chapters ? Can I be cheeky and ask if someone could share an example , if its not too much trouble?

Since Dana said this is a community and we can ask anything , I am hoping I can ask about the art of writing. In a romance novel , must there always be a subplot? AND must both the male and female protagonist have trauma / problems / fears to over come ? Or can one be the calm to the storm ?