{"id":"create-plot-twist-brainstorm-rules","audience":"college","category":"creative-writing","technique":"constraints","track":"writing","title":"Brainstorm plot twists that follow your story's own rules","free":false,"task":"You're stuck on the twist for your fantasy story. Get exactly 4 numbered twist ideas, each formatted \"1. Twist: ... | Planted clue: ...\", where the clue is something already in your chapter notes. Each idea under 35 words, under 200 words in total, plain text. Every twist must obey your world's rules, and skip the twist types your workshop banned.","materialLabel":"Your story notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"STORY NOTES - \"The Salt Archive\" (Creative Writing 220, workshop draft)\n\nWorld rules (I set these in chapter 1):\n- Salt-readers can read memories stored in salt, but only memories of the dead\n- Nobody can bring the dead back. Ever.\n- No time travel. The archive only records, it can't change the past\n\nCharacters: Wren (apprentice salt-reader), Master Oduya (her teacher), Captain Hale (city guard), Tamsin (Wren's missing sister)\n\nClues I've planted so far:\n- Ch 2: Oduya refuses to read one jar marked with a blue thread\n- Ch 3: Hale's salt ration is twice what a guard should get\n- Ch 4: Tamsin's room smells of sea salt, though she hated the sea\n- Ch 5: one archive ledger page is torn out\n\nWorkshop rule (Prof. Adeyemi): no \"it was all a dream\" and no \"the narrator was dead the whole time.\"\n\nNeed the twist for Ch 9.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":4},{"type":"maxWords","max":200},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Breaking your world's rules","why":"The AI's favorite twists include resurrection and time loops, which your chapter 1 rules out.","fix":"Add: \"Every twist must obey my rules: no bringing back the dead, no time travel.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Twists out of nowhere","why":"The AI invents new secrets, so the twist feels unearned.","fix":"Add: \"Each twist must pay off one of my planted clues; name it.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Getting the banned twists","why":"'It was all a dream' and 'the narrator was dead' show up in most AI twist lists.","fix":"Add: \"No dream twist and no dead-narrator twist.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"No shape","why":"The AI writes a paragraph per twist with pros and cons.","fix":"Show it: \"1. Twist: ... | Planted clue: Ch 3, Hale's salt ration\"","checks":["numberedItems","maxWords"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it's going","why":"AI adds bold and headings that show up as stray symbols in your notes.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Gives the world rules","patterns":["rule","no time travel","dead","obey"]},{"label":"Ties twists to clues","patterns":["clue","planted","pay off"]},{"label":"Bans the stock twists","patterns":["dream","workshop","banned"]},{"label":"Says how many twists","patterns":["\\b(4|four)\\b.{0,25}(twist|idea)","exactly \\d+","numbered"]},{"label":"Sets a length limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)","under \\d+"]}],"hint":"Good twists feel surprising and fair. Give the AI your world's rules, ask it to pay off clues you planted, and name the twists you can't use.","rubricLabels":["No twist brings anyone back from the dead, uses time travel, or has the archive change the past","Each idea has a 'Planted clue:' that matches one of the four clues in the notes (blue thread jar, Hale's salt ration, Tamsin's room, the torn ledger page)","No twist is 'it was all a dream' or 'the narrator was dead the whole time'"]}