{"id":"create-picture-book-page-plan","audience":"parents","category":"creative-writing","technique":"format","track":"writing","title":"Plan an 8-page picture book for your grandchild","free":false,"task":"You're making a homemade picture book for your granddaughter's 4th birthday. Get exactly 8 numbered pages formatted \"1. Text: ... | Picture: ...\", with each page's text under 15 words, under 230 words in total, plain text. The story is about her first day at preschool, with her dog Biscuit, and it should be brave, not scary. The last page's text is exactly \"Tomorrow, Zara will go again.\"","materialLabel":"Your notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"PICTURE BOOK NOTES (Grandma June)\n\nFor: Zara, turning 4 on September 3\nShe starts at Little Acorns Preschool on September 8\nWorries she told me: \"What if nobody plays with me?\" and \"Will Mommy come back?\"\n\nHer favorite things:\n- her dog Biscuit (a fluffy white mutt, one brown ear)\n- her yellow rain boots\n- the swing at the park\n\nLittle Acorns: her teacher is Ms. Bell, there's a fish tank named Bubbles, snack is apple slices\n\nI'm drawing the pictures myself with colored pencils, so the picture ideas need to be simple: one or two things per page.\n\nMommy picks her up at 12:30.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":8},{"type":"maxWords","max":230},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Getting a story, not pages","why":"The AI writes one flowing story with no page breaks or picture ideas.","fix":"Show it: \"1. Text: ... | Picture: ...\" and say \"exactly 8 pages\".","checks":["numberedItems","r0"]},{"title":"Skipping her worries","why":"The AI writes a cheerful generic first day that never answers what Zara's actually afraid of.","fix":"Add: \"Show that a friend plays with her and Mommy comes back at 12:30.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Pictures too hard to draw","why":"AI picture notes describe busy scenes with many characters.","fix":"Add: \"Each picture: one or two simple things I can draw in colored pencil.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"No ending line","why":"The AI ends with 'The End' or a moral instead of your line.","fix":"Add: \"Page 8 text: Tomorrow, Zara will go again.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total and it often lands 20% over.","fix":"Cap each page: \"text under 15 words, picture under 10 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it's going","why":"AI adds bold and headings that show up as stray symbols in a printed draft.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Shows the page shape","patterns":["text:","picture:","page"]},{"label":"Uses her real worries","patterns":["worr","friend","mommy","come back"]},{"label":"Keeps pictures simple","patterns":["simple","easy to draw","one or two"]},{"label":"Gives the last line","patterns":["go again","last page","page 8"]},{"label":"Says how many pages","patterns":["\\b(8|eight)\\b.{0,25}(page)","exactly \\d+","numbered"]}],"hint":"A picture book is a page plan, not a story. Show the AI the page shape, the worries to answer, how simple the pictures must be, and the last line.","rubricLabels":["Each of the 8 pages has a 'Text:' part and a 'Picture:' part, and each picture idea is simple (one or two things to draw)","The story is about Zara's first day at preschool with Biscuit, touches both of her worries (making a friend, Mommy coming back) and has nothing scary","Page 8's text is exactly 'Tomorrow, Zara will go again.'"]}