# ZenStory AI

> Open-source AI tools and agent skills for story creation, adaptation, and production. Create stories. Adapt them. Ship them — from web fiction and short drama to games and video. Everything is MIT-licensed and maintained at https://github.com/zenstory-ai.

ZenStory AI (GitHub org `zenstory-ai`) publishes six projects. Five are skill packs / plugins for coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, Google Antigravity, OpenCode, ZCode, OpenClaw, Kimi Code and DeepSeek Harness; one is a hosted writing workbench. Choose by the material and deliverable: plan or revise fiction, adapt a story into short drama or a game, or turn footage into narrated video. Projects have separate setup and workspace requirements; this is not an automatic cross-product pipeline.

Canonical install path for the skill packs is the GitHub repository under `zenstory-ai/` (e.g. `npx skills add zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode`). Repositories were previously hosted under `worldwonderer/`; those paths permanently redirect here.

## Projects

Overview page: https://zenstory.ai/projects (中文: https://zenstory.ai/zh/projects) — each project has a canonical page in English and, under `/zh`, in 中文, with its definition, audience, workflow, capability limits and dated, versioned source notes. Those notes identify the reviewed source snapshot, not a guarantee about later releases.

- [Oh Story (oh-story-claudecode)](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story) · [source](https://github.com/zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode): Thirteen agent skills for web-fiction research, deconstruction, drafting, revision and covers. Chart data depends on available sources; historical fallback is labeled. Pattern checks do not establish authorship or guarantee AI-detector scores. Host capabilities determine orchestration support.
- [Drama Skills (drama-skills)](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills) · [source](https://github.com/zenstory-ai/drama-skills): Eleven skills for short-drama and motion-comic scripts, visual specifications, storyboards and generation prompts. Documents and stages are selected as needed. Media production requires configured providers and explicit spending confirmation; review is separately requested.
- [Novel to Game (novel-to-game)](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game) · [source](https://github.com/zenstory-ai/novel-to-game): Seven agent skills for source-grounded adaptation into a game candidate on a selected target runtime. Six runtime QA checks record execution evidence, not subjective quality or readiness for commercial release.
- [Video Recap Skills (video-recap-skills)](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap) · [source](https://github.com/zenstory-ai/video-recap-skills): Six skills total — five stage skills plus one orchestrator — for Chinese-narration video recaps and optional CapCut/JianYing draft export. ffmpeg processes media locally; MiMo and optional Fish Audio services handle remote model tasks. Final output requires playback review.
- [Oh Story DSH (oh-story-dsh)](https://zenstory.ai/dsh) · [source](https://github.com/zenstory-ai/oh-story-dsh): A community DeepSeek Harness plugin with pinned novel, short-drama, game and video skill packs and four workbenches. The local DSH Web environment and model/media services require configuration. Package: `@oh-story/dsh`; not affiliated with, partnered with or endorsed by DeepSeek.
- [ZenStory workbench (zenstory)](https://zenstory.ai/workbench) · [source](https://github.com/zenstory-ai/zenstory): A conversation-first writing workspace for project files, materials, characters, drafts and version history. Hosted at https://app.zenstory.ai; self-hosting requires backend/model configuration. See the project page for version limits and the published privacy-policy statement.

## Guides

Guides index: https://zenstory.ai/guides (中文: https://zenstory.ai/zh/guides) — browse by creative task or search for a working question. Each published article includes a concrete method, an original example, and its skill source.

### Start writing with AI / AI 写作入门
- [Start writing with AI](https://zenstory.ai/guides/getting-started) — Install a writing workflow, import a draft, and write your first chapter.
- [Agent skills for writers: prompts, skill packs, plugins, MCP](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/agent-skills-for-writers) — An agent skill is a folder of instructions and reference files that a coding agent such as Claude Code or Codex loads when a matching task comes up. You do not write code to use one. For a novelist the tasks are turning an idea into an outline, importing a manuscript, or revising a chapter against project notes. Oh Story is a pack of 13 such skills for fiction; it runs inside the agent host and uses the model that host is configured with. Skills differ from prompts (they live on disk and are reused), plugins (a distribution wrapper) and MCP servers (tools exposed over a protocol). Pick the writing job first, then the host. The example below compares two investigation openings in chat before any planning files are created.
- [Write a novel with DeepSeek: pick a workspace, keep drafting](https://zenstory.ai/dsh/deepseek-novel-writing) — To write a novel with DeepSeek, choose by where the writing lives: ordinary DeepSeek chat for one-off tasks, a local DSH workspace for a whole manuscript. Use an ordinary DeepSeek model chat for a disposable brainstorm, outline critique or scene rewrite that you will copy into your own manuscript. Use DeepSeek Harness (DSH) plus the community Oh Story DSH plugin when you want a local writing folder, persistent sessions, creation skills and a file/editor/Chat workbench. Use the separate hosted ZenStory service at app.zenstory.ai when you want an account-based browser project with nothing to run locally. These sit on different layers: DeepSeek is the model/provider choice, DSH is the agent host, @oh-story/dsh is a community plugin for that host, and hosted ZenStory is a separate application. The plugin runs inside DSH; an ordinary DeepSeek chat does not load it. For the broader difference between chat, skills and agents, see AI agent skills for writers; for a field-by-field comparison of the three ZenStory AI writing environments, see the workflow comparison. Already have a draft? Start by naming the latest accepted manuscript, the last complete chapter and any unfinished tail, then ask for the next step. The worked archive mystery below shows how to turn those materials into a next-scene choice before importing or changing files, and the last step gives a paste-ready prompt that makes the agent continue from the project's state files.
- [Continue your unfinished novel with AI: import into Oh Story](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/import-and-continue) — If you already have 10 to 20 chapters, do not ask an empty chat to continue in the same style. Run Oh Story's story-import: it rebuilds the manuscript as a writing project, keeps the original prose, and generates settings, outlines and continuity records from it. Inferred facts go on a review list, and the manuscript stays the evidence you check them against. Then request the next chapter by name. The harbor-radio example below shows a continuation paying off a decision the last chapter already made. Intentions that never reached the page come from you: put them in the next-chapter plan, and check the new chapter's voice against your last original chapters.
- [How to write a book with Claude Code or Codex: install to chapter one](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/claude-code-novel-writing) — To write a book with Claude Code or Codex, install the Oh Story skill pack, run /story-setup, start a fresh session and draft chapter one in Markdown.
- [How to Prompt AI to Write a Novel Chapter](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/ai-novel-writing-prompts) — Give the AI a defined task, chapter beats, current character state and limits on what may be revealed. Includes a filled prompt and focused revision requests.
- [How to Draft Several Novel Chapters with AI](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/batch-draft-novel-chapters-with-ai) — Plan bounded chapter batches with a shared goal, reveal limits and per-chapter changes. Includes a three-chapter example and a batch-end review.

### Outlines and plot / 小说大纲与情节
- [Outlines and plot](https://zenstory.ai/guides/plot-and-outline) — Plan openings, chapters, suspense, pacing, and endings.
- [How to Draft a Novel Chapter from an Outline](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/outline-to-chapter) — A chapter outline specifies what must happen; the prose turns that into a process. Write goals, obstacles, evidence, choices and costs as events the viewpoint character can perceive, then deliver the agreed ending change. The original library example below compares a briefing-like opening with staged prose, then continues from the signed form through conditional cooperation, a short transport transition and the end of the first trip. Give consequential reactions room and keep routine actions brief. The excerpts are hand-written editorial samples.
- [How to Turn an Idea into a Complete Short Story](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/short-story-from-idea) — A premise gives a short story its starting pressure; the plot still has to be built. Decide what the reader should want answered, what prevents an easy answer, what the protagonist must choose and what observable change will settle that question. Then build only the scenes needed to earn that ending. A twist is optional. Oh Story’s short-writing workflow separates design from drafting and plans with a section outline that is lighter than a long-novel chapter blueprint. The four-part framing here is an editorial thinking aid; the design files still follow the skill’s bundled format. The original repair-shop example closes one relationship decision and leaves the family’s longer history where it is. The opening, negotiation and ending excerpts below show that choice on the page: a failed hint becomes stated terms, a deposit and a departure, while the jacket still waits to be mended at her new home and older family hurts remain.
- [How to Write a Web Novel Opening: The First Three Chapters](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/novel-opening) — Build a clear protagonist, goal and story promise, then deliver progress. Includes opening checks and a watch-shop scene without fixed payoff quotas.
- [Types of Cliffhangers for Web Serials: 13 Hooks and How to Choose](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/chapter-ending-hooks) — A cliffhanger ends a chapter on an unresolved question. Get 13 ending hooks, 7 opening hooks, original examples, and how to write one by mood and stage.
- [Chapter Outline Template for a Web Novel](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/chapter-outline-template) — A chapter outline for a web serial sets the emotional shift, the lead's key choice, detail per beat and what stays hidden. Copy the template and example.
- [How to Write Satisfying Payoff Beats in Web Fiction](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/satisfaction-beats) — Six payoffs: ability, goals, gains, attitudes, identity, emotion. A table works back through result, expectation, setup, reaction and next goal.
- [How to Write Plot Twists: Six Types, Setup, Reveals, and Consequences](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/plot-twists) — Identity, perspective, motive, timeline, information, or perception twists—or direct emotion. Includes an example, guessability test, and design table.
- [How to Write a Web-Fiction Outline: Template and Volume Example](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/novel-outline-template) — Set core appeal, ending, and volume climaxes first; work back through goals, obstacles, and causality. Includes a book–volume–scene template and example.
- [Short-Story Outline Template: Work Backward from the Emotional Landing](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/short-story-outline-template) — Build from emotional landing and core payoff; track change, causality, reader knowledge, handoff. Includes a concise template and full example.
- [How to Write a System Panel in Fiction: Rules, Costs, and Display](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/system-panel-template) — Define capability limits, failure conditions, and costs before deciding what the character sees. Includes a panel template and original example.
- [How to Write a Face-Slapping Scene That Changes the Situation](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/face-slapping-scene) — Set up underestimation, overturn it with action, and let witnesses respond according to their interests. Includes a full scene and failure fixes.
- [How to Plant Foreshadowing: Setup, Suspense, and Payoff](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/foreshadowing-and-suspense) — Altered-list example: separate foreshadowing from suspense, plant and misdirect fairly, order and pay off clues, fix hidden answers and plot delay.
- [How to Control Pacing in a Web Novel](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/web-serial-pacing) — Vary high-pressure, progress, relationship and quiet chapters through state changes. Includes pacing diagnosis and an original chapter sequence.
- [How to Explain Worldbuilding Naturally Through Action](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/worldbuilding-exposition) — Explain rules when they shape choices. Use action results, brief conflict dialogue, and in-scene carriers; cut exposition. Includes an original rewrite.
- [How to Title Web Fiction from a Promise the Story Can Keep](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/novel-titles) — Extract genre, identity, core method, and reward; build titles from contrast, events, plot, or payoff, then test whether the story delivers.
- [Where to Put a Short Story’s Paywall: Work Back from the Payoff](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/short-story-paywall) — Hooks: unfinished action, a key object changing hands, a relationship turn or a dilemma. Plan the payoff, then work back to the setup, choices and costs.
- [Short Stories vs. Novels: Two Structures for One Idea](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/short-vs-long-fiction) — Compare time to payoff, cast size, scene density, foreshadowing and emotional expression to decide whether your idea suits a short story or a novel.
- [Organising a Story Bible: Characters, Timelines and Knowledge](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/story-bible-template) — Maintain stable character facts, current states, relationships, timelines, world rules and open threads separately to reduce continuity conflicts.
- [How to Write Story Conflict: Goals, Leverage, and Countermoves](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/story-conflict) — Build adversarial conflict from goals, leverage, and countermoves. Includes a transmitter-restoration example and checks for escalation and results.
- [How to Write a Climax That Delivers Your Story's Promises](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/climax-scene) — Plan a climax from established goals, abilities, relationships, and evidence. Includes payoff types, an archive-screening example, and setup checks.
- [How to Write Scene Transitions: Let One Scene Lead into the Next](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/scene-transitions) — Decide when to jump ahead, then bridge scenes through causality, questions, emotional residue, objects, or sound. Includes a weather-station example.
- [How to Write Flashbacks: Make the Past Change a Present Choice](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/flashbacks-in-fiction) — Trigger a flashback from the present, retrieve only what changes judgment, relationships, or choice, then act on it. Includes a repair-shop example.
- [How to Write Setting Description: Let Characters Act in the Scene](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/environment-description) — Choose setting details a character would notice, touch, and act on instead of listing scenery. Includes a greenhouse blackout and revision method.
- [How to Design a Web-Novel Cheat: Rules, Costs, and Growth](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/golden-finger) — A hero’s unique lasting edge: information, growth boosts or items. Set triggers, feedback, costs and limits; see five questions and an original ledger case.
- [How to Design Cultivation Realms, with an Original Progression Table](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/cultivation-realms) — Design cultivation realms through abilities, status, and relationships. Includes a five-stage system, a three-breath shield scene, and progression checks.
- [How to Write a Short-Story Hook](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/story-lead-in) — Build opening paragraphs from cause, conflict, character, and emotional turn; add an object, information gap, and open hook. Includes an original rewrite.
- [How to Write a Subplot That Serves the Main Plot](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/subplot-mainline-convergence) — Use a function card to connect a subplot’s goal and obstacles to a main-plot change, convergence point, and remove-or-merge test.
- [How to Outline a Novel Volume](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/volume-outline-template) — Plan one novel volume with a clear end-state change, connected story lines, causal plot units, an original example, and a restrained AI handoff template.
- [How to Write a Satisfying Novel Ending](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-satisfying-novel-ending) — Trace the story’s promises, make the final choice cost something, and give the protagonist a concrete new state in the last scene.
- [Show vs. Tell in Fiction: When to Use Each](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/show-vs-tell-fiction) — Choose scene detail for decisions and change; summarize routine, elapsed time, and information the reader needs without replaying.
- [How to Plan a Novel Series Without Losing Momentum](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/plan-a-novel-series) — Give each book a complete emotional payoff, a larger unresolved question, and a changing protagonist goal that earns the next installment.
- [How to Write a Novel Synopsis That Shows the Whole Story](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-novel-synopsis) — Summarize the protagonist’s goal, major turns, causal links, and ending in plain language; a synopsis is not a blurb.
- [How to Write an Unreliable Narrator With Fair Clues](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-an-unreliable-narrator) — Separate mistaken interpretation from withheld motives. Use a fact ledger, two original versions and a reveal that survives rereading.
- [How to Use Three-Act Structure for a Novel](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/use-three-act-structure-for-a-novel) — Plan setup, confrontation and resolution around changing choices. Includes a filled three-act outline, a middle turn and use within a serial volume.
- [How to Write a Story Theme Without Preaching](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-theme-without-preaching) — Turn an abstract theme into recurring choices with different consequences. Includes an original comparison, a scene revision and checks for drift.
- [How to Write a Fanfiction Opening](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-fanfiction-opening) — Separate familiar canon from new premises and bring established characters into a fresh goal. Includes an original fictional-canon example and a setup table.
- [How to Make Readers Care About the Outcome](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/create-emotional-stakes-in-fiction) — Connect a goal to visible investment and meaningful loss. Includes an original night-school story and repairs that do not rely on adding tragedy.
- [How to Write a Complete Fiction Scene](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-scene-that-changes-the-story) — Turn a scene goal, obstacle, judgment and result into continuous prose. Includes an original lost-property scene, a detail plan and revision checks.
- [How to Decide Whether Your Novel Needs a Prologue](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-novel-prologue) — Test whether a prologue supplies necessary narrative context. Includes an original ferry story, keep-or-merge comparisons and exposition repairs.
- [How to Develop a Recurring Object in a Novel](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/recurring-object-in-fiction) — Develop an object through practical use and changing character choices. Includes an original key example and a recurrence planning table.
- [How to Write Multiple Factions in a Novel](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-multiple-factions-in-a-novel) — Give factions independent reasons to act on one event. Includes an original alliance map and repairs for passive observers or unexplained support.
- [Organize Your Novel’s Timeline and Reveals](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/organize-a-novel-timeline) — Separate event chronology, manuscript order and reader knowledge. Use relative time and a worked flashback example without inventing dates.
- [How to Name Novel Chapters Without Spoiling the Reveal](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/novel-chapter-titles) — Choose chapter titles from actual actions, lines, or motifs. Compare workshop examples, check spoilers and repeats, and preserve manuscript naming.
- [How to Weave Multiple Storylines in a Novel](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/weave-multiple-storylines-in-a-novel) — Give each storyline a present question, then choose returns and intersections. Includes a complete two-location passage and a timing worksheet.
- [How to Write a Chase Scene](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-chase-scene) — Establish the objective and route, then show choices changing pursuit. Includes an original warehouse chase without a last-minute exit or frozen pursuer.
- [How to Write a Countdown Plot](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-countdown-plot) — Build urgency from a clear cutoff, task duration, and consequences. Includes an original submission timeline without convenient extensions.
- [How to Write a Rescue Scene](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-rescue-scene) — Define the person, obstacle, and escape result. Includes a complete fantasy rescue with established abilities, cooperation, and an actual exit.

### Characters and dialogue / 人物与对白
- [Characters and dialogue](https://zenstory.ai/guides/characters-and-dialogue) — Build believable motives, distinct voices, and relationships.
- [Distinct character dialogue: goals, knowledge, relationships](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/character-dialogue) — Distinct dialogue starts with what each speaker is trying to do to the conversation: obtain permission, protect something, avoid an admission, test a claim or offer a concession. Give each character a different selection of relevant information and a relationship to the listener, then choose wording and rhythm that fit this moment. Catchphrases alone do not provide that structure. Oh Story’s dialogue references tie voice to agenda, relationship, setting and purpose, so the same character’s rhythm shifts with the listener and the moment. The original rehearsal example below preserves the same decision while separating three voices and keeping a private fact out of characters’ mouths. A second version lets a direct answer resolve a misunderstanding while leaving a private fact undisclosed; it compares that extra friction with the earlier, quicker exchange.
- [How to Write Believable Character Motivation](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/character-motivation) — To show why a character acts, give them a concrete goal, a reason it matters to them, an obstacle and something they could lose, then show how their usual way of solving problems shapes one choice. However detailed the profile, the motive only becomes visible in that choice. Oh Story’s character references distinguish goals from motives and connect motivation to cause, intention, constraint and risk. The original fantasy-courier example below turns “proud but responsible” into a sequence of decisions, and a separate prose excerpt lets the offer, resistance and agreement happen in dialogue and action. Trauma, a hidden secret and a growth arc are optional; use them when the character and the story call for them.
- [How to Write a Romance Subplot](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/romance-subplot) — Separate affection from relationship confirmation through shared experience, invitations, and real replies. Includes a complete weather-station example.
- [How to Write a Smart Antagonist: Goals, Leverage, and Countermoves](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/villains) — Give antagonists goals, resources, judgment, and adaptive strategies. Match depth to their role; let action and stable weaknesses decide the outcome.
- [How to Keep Your Protagonist at the Center of the Story](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/protagonist-agency) — Keep the protagonist central through decisive choices, consequences and earned rewards. Supporting characters can act without taking over the payoff.
- [How to Write Emotion in Fiction: Let Feeling Change Action](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/emotion-on-the-page) — Ground emotion in a choice, line of dialogue, strategy, or cost before adding an object, physical detail, or direct statement. Avoid performing it twice.
- [How to Write an Ensemble Cast with Distinct Roles and Relationships](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/ensemble-cast) — Manage an ensemble through roles, relationship layers, and distinctive actions. Includes an original function table and ways to merge or cut characters.
- [How to Choose Narrative POV: First Person, Third Person & Switching](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/narrative-point-of-view) — Choose POV by information limits, psychic distance, blind spots, and story scale. Includes one event in multiple POVs and fixes for head-hopping.
- [How to Write a Character Arc](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/character-arc) — Build a character arc through choices: an old belief and strategy work, accrue costs, then change under an unavoidable decision. Includes a six-stage map.
- [How to Write Subtext Between Two Male Leads](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/dual-male-lead-subtext) — Plan subtext between two male leads with dialogue, action, visible evidence, and viewpoint. Includes a scene example and a bounded AI prompt.
- [How to Write a Slow-Burn Romance That Keeps Moving](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-slow-burn-romance) — Build attraction through repeated acts of trust, change the relationship at each milestone, and keep the external story moving.
- [How to Write Enemies-to-Lovers Romance](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-enemies-to-lovers-romance) — Build a real conflict, preserve both characters’ agency, and show the repeated choices that make cooperation and trust believable.
- [How to Write Character Backstory Without Stopping the Story](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-character-backstory) — Connect a character’s past to a present choice, then decide what the reader needs now. Includes an original scene, a reveal plan and revision checks.
- [How to Write Supporting Characters Who Have Their Own Goals](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-memorable-supporting-character) — Give supporting characters a story function, a goal of their own and a planned exit. Includes character cards and three choices in one conflict.
- [Dialogue Tags and Action Beats: When to Use Each](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-natural-dialogue-tags) — Use tags to identify speakers and action beats to change the scene. Original before-and-after examples address unclear attribution and repetitive gestures.
- [How to Write an Overpowered Protagonist](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-an-overpowered-protagonist) — Keep a powerful lead capable while changing the obstacles. Use noncombat constraints, conflicting goals and consequences instead of sudden incompetence.
- [How to Write Subtext in Fiction Dialogue](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-subtext-in-dialogue) — Define what a speaker wants and why they cannot say it directly. Includes original public and private exchanges, supporting actions and revision checks.
- [How to Write a Believably Smart Character](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-smart-character) — Show intelligence through observation, adaptation and verifiable action. Includes an original scene and checks against unsupported insight or foolish opponents.
- [How to Write a Character With Contrasting Traits](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-character-contrast) — Connect public impressions, behavior and inner motives. Includes an original character card and checks that distinguish contrast from inconsistency.
- [How to Write a Worthy Rival](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-worthy-rival) — Give rivals independent goals, demonstrated respect and a conflict neither can easily abandon. Includes an original competition and a limited-cooperation plan.
- [How to Design Characters for a Short Drama](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/short-drama-character-design) — Turn biography into goals, protected values, habitual strategies and costs. Includes an original character card and a scene testing those traits.
- [How to Fix Out-of-Character Fanfiction](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-fanfiction-that-fits-the-characters) — Separate canon behavior, its triggers and your changes. Includes a fictional-canon comparison and a method for repairing choices without freezing growth.
- [How to Write a Believable Betrayal](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-betrayal-that-feels-earned) — Build betrayal from established trust and character choices, then change what happens next. Includes an original theater story and a trust-evidence table.
- [How to Write a Romance Confession Scene](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-romance-confession-scene) — Design a confession around relationship progress, personal agendas and a real response. Includes an original choir scene and before-and-after dialogue.
- [How to Give Numbers Meaning in Fiction](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/numbers-in-fiction) — Connect money, time and quantities to established character costs. Includes an original budget scene and a practical meaning table.
- [How to Introduce a Fiction Character Readers Remember](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/introduce-a-fiction-character) — Introduce a character through a task, a memorable detail and a choice. Includes an original rehearsal scene and a compact planning card.
- [How to Describe Character Appearance in Fiction](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/describe-character-appearance) — Choose visible traits through viewpoint and attention rather than listing features. Includes an original scene and before-and-after descriptions.
- [How to Write Interior Monologue That Changes a Choice](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-interior-monologue) — Separate observations, guesses, memories and decisions in interior monologue. Includes an original cancellation scene and knowledge checks.
- [Too Much Dialogue in Your Novel? What to Keep](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/fix-too-much-dialogue-in-a-novel) — Diagnose repeated information and conversational results rather than counting lines. Preserve key responses with a worked instrument-loan example.
- [How to Write Romance After the Couple Gets Together](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-romance-after-the-couple-gets-together) — Move beyond the confession with shared plans, individual goals, and new disagreements. Includes an original example and a choice worksheet.
- [How to Write a Family Reconciliation Scene](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-family-reconciliation-scene) — Ground family reconciliation in the conflict and both viewpoints, then show changes in judgment and daily life. Includes an original scene and worksheet.
- [How to Write a Sad Scene in Fiction](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-sad-scene-in-fiction) — Write a sad scene through a specific bond, a loss, and a response. Use an original farewell example, revision checks, and a bounded writing prompt.
- [How to Write a Scary Scene That Builds Dread](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-scary-scene) — Build dread through a familiar detail, an observable anomaly, and a character’s choice, with a cinema scene and a revision worksheet.
- [How to Write a Love Triangle Where Every Choice Matters](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-love-triangle) — Build distinct bonds and independent goals for three characters. Includes a theater example, a relationship worksheet, and ways to handle jealousy and choice.
- [How to Write a Second-Chance Romance Readers Believe](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-second-chance-romance) — Separate misunderstanding, harm, and change after separation. Includes an original prose scene, a repair worksheet, and checks for a believable reunion.
- [How to Write an Argument Scene That Changes the Relationship](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-an-argument-scene) — Build arguments from different agendas and responsive emotion. Includes a complete moving-day scene, exchange analysis, and repairs for repetitive fights.
- [How to Write a Friends-to-Lovers Romance That Feels Earned](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-friends-to-lovers-romance) — Distinguish friendship, attraction, and agreement to date. Includes an original recording scene, mutual replies, and repairs when a transition feels forced.
- [How to Write a Fake-Dating Romance with Real Stakes](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-fake-dating-romance) — Separate public performance, private attraction, and real agreement. Includes an original family, wedding, and exhibition example with revision checks.
- [How to Write an Unrequited-Love Story with Emotional Depth](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-an-unrequited-love-story) — Separate one person’s hopes from the other’s actual reply. Includes an original running scene, actions after rejection, and repairs for emotional depth.
- [How to Write Mutual Pining Without Stalling the Romance](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-mutual-pining-romance) — Show attraction on both sides while tracking what each person knows. Includes original viewpoints, a date invitation, actual contact, and pacing repairs.
- [How to Write a Secret-Identity Romance with Fair Clues](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-secret-identity-romance) — Track who knows the identity, when they learn it, and what disclosure changes. Includes an original pen-name romance, fair clues, and replies after revelation.
- [How to Write a Believable Villain Redemption](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-believable-villain-redemption) — Write redemption through changed choices, real repair, and the injured person’s reply. Includes a lantern-fair scene without forced forgiveness.
- [How to Write Jealousy in a Romance](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-jealousy-in-a-romance) — Separate observed facts, guesses, and the reply a character wants. Includes a jealousy scene that retains work, a third person’s goals, and an agreed date.
- [How to Write a Negotiation Scene in Fiction](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-negotiation-scene) — Build negotiations around goals, conditions, and limits. Includes a complete repair-shop scene and the difference between agreement and action.
- [How to Write a Character Who Lies](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-character-who-lies) — Define the deliberate falsehood and motive, then track what the listener actually knows. Includes a complete library exchange and repairs after discovery.
- [How to Write a Flawed Protagonist](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-flawed-protagonist) — Connect a flaw to established experience, habitual choices, and consequences. Includes a complete scene about an editor judging too soon.
- [How to Write a Moral Dilemma in Fiction](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-moral-dilemma) — Put goals, promises, and values in conflict, check feasible alternatives, then show the choice and consequences. Includes a choir-selection scene.
- [How to Write a Believable Misunderstanding](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-believable-misunderstanding) — Separate observed facts from inference and allow credible questions and replies. Includes a moving-day scene where clarification leaves a relationship cost.
- [How to Write a Friendship Arc](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-friendship-arc) — Give friends shared habits, independent goals, and credible change. Includes an original photography-show scene without compulsory betrayal or romance.
- [How to Write an Apology Scene](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-an-apology-scene) — Build an apology from a specific wrong, conversational purpose, and reply. Includes an original cover-credit scene separating admission, repair, and trust.
- [How to Write a Character Death That Matters](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-character-death) — Establish the living character, the cause of death, who knows what, and the changed relationships. Includes original prose and revision checks.
- [How to Write a Reunion Scene](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-reunion-scene) — Use expectations, old habits, and present responses to write a reunion. Includes a complete scene without assuming romance or forgiveness.
- [How to Choose Character Names That Fit Your Novel](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/choose-fiction-character-names) — Choose names from setting and relationships, test confusing names and aliases, and use a complete three-person revision plus an AI naming brief.
- [How to Build a Useful Character Relationship Map for a Novel](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/make-a-novel-character-relationship-map) — Map goals, conditions and knowledge as well as social ties. Follow a four-person book-fair map, complete scene and concrete relationship updates.

### Choose and write a genre / 题材与类型写法
- [Choose and write a genre](https://zenstory.ai/guides/genres) — Choose a genre and learn the story patterns it needs.
- [How to write rules horror: when the rules start to collide](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/rules-horror) — How to write rule-based horror: make two rules collide so each test costs a route, a tool or an ally. Includes a build order and a sample rule sheet.
- [How to Write a Novel Blurb from the Story's Real Selling Point](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/novel-blurb) — A blurb is not a synopsis: show protagonist situation, conflict, action direction, and promised emotion. Includes a template and versions of one story.
- [How to Write a Fight Scene: Decide the Outcome Before the Moves](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/fight-scenes) — Set outcome, advantage, and cost. Use mind, body, skill, and setting; show key-action consequences, compress repeats, and land the heaviest beat briefly.
- [How to Write Angst: Build the Bond Before You Break It](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/angst-fiction) — Make loss hurt through specific bonds, irreversible choices and quiet aftermath. Includes a three-stage approach and an original worked example.
- [How to Write Social and Family Drama: Let Small Wrongs Build to an Evidence-Based Reckoning](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/family-drama-fiction) — Show exploitation through money, property, rules and enablers. Stop yielding, keep evidence, then counter with accounts, rules and real-world consequences.
- [How to Write Sweet Romance: Create Sweetness Through Relationship Change](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/sweet-romance) — Sweet beats prove change: affection targets one person, care alters choices, and brief misunderstandings prompt responses. Includes a method and example.
- [How to Write Period Web Fiction: Objects, Procedures, and Favors](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/period-novel) — Period details should restrict choices, shift resources, or change reputations. Includes a research checklist, practical ledgers, and an original scene.
- [How to Write Palace Intrigue: Rules, Evidence, and Rulings](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/palace-intrigue) — Build rounds from challenge, evidence, alignment, ruling, and aftermath, so rules recognize each win. Includes an original evidence plot.
- [Writing a Groveling Reconciliation Arc: Harm, Departure, Remorse](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/crematorium-arc) — Establish irreversible harm, let departure shift power, and prove regret with matching actions. Includes structure and an original example.
- [How to Write a CEO Romance Without Making Care Feel Like Control](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/ceo-romance) — Distinguish care from control through decision rights, refusal costs, and public boundaries. Shows how the power gap shapes choices in a contract marriage.
- [How to Write Rebirth Revenge: Limit Knowledge, Create New Obstacles](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/rebirth-revenge) — Limit past-life memory so intervention makes the future unreliable. Includes opening method, knowledge boundaries, layered foes, and an original example.
- [How to Write a Fair-Play Mystery with a Clue Ledger](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/mystery-novel) — A mystery must show readers facts they can reason from. Use a three-part clue ledger for discovery, interpretation, and truth. Includes an original case.
- [Web-Fiction Subgenres Explained Through Their Core Loops](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/web-novel-subgenres) — Compare common web-fiction modes through core loops, from mortal-flow and infinite-flow to rules horror, urban martial arts, systems, and rebirth revenge.
- [How to Write Yanyan-Style Stories: Limited Viewpoint and Fair Twists](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/yanyan-stories) — Use an urgent first-person goal, limited information, an everyday anomaly, and recovered evidence so a twist changes the meaning of earlier facts.
- [Choosing a Web-Fiction Genre: From Interest to a Trial Scene](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/choosing-a-genre) — Skip unverified hype. Choose a genre using your material, a promise to readers, a sustainable story engine and the cost of a trial draft.
- [Writing Quick Transmigration: Make Each World Change the Mission](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/quick-transmigration-novel) — Build each world around a role, relationship pressure, mission limits and changes to the original plot. Make experience from other worlds carry a cost.
- [Female-Oriented Farming Fiction: Grow Resources and Relationships](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/farming-novel) — Drive farming fiction with livelihood needs, business cycles, obligations and family boundaries. Avoid supply lists and cost-free special powers.
- [Writing Apocalyptic Sci-Fi: Resources, Rules and Trust Under Pressure](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/apocalypse-scifi-novel) — Connect disaster patterns, resource use and group trust through choices. Make every survival gain bring depletion or exposure.
- [Writing Western Fantasy: Put Institutions and Magic Costs into Action](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/western-fantasy-novel) — Build conflicts through status, professional permissions, contracts and costs of power. Avoid reskinning cultivation progression with Western terms.
- [Writing Workplace Romance: Let Work and Love Change Each Other](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/workplace-romance-novel) — Connect work and romance at major choices while preserving independent goals. Includes an exhibition example with client replies and completed testing.
- [How to Build Reader Investment in Women-Focused Fiction](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/emotional-safety-in-romance) — Use promise anchors, phase payoffs and character choices to sustain emotional safety. Avoid a whole volume of suffering followed by contrived compensation.
- [Writing Urban Speculative Fiction: Build a Novel Around One New Rule](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/urban-premise-novel) — Put one speculative rule into bills, contracts, work and relationships. Develop distinct gains, risks and public responses instead of repeating rewards.
- [How to Write Absurdist Comedy from Rules and Character Reactions](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/comedy-short-story) — Build comedy from expectation gaps, earnest action, and escalating consequences. Includes an original rule demo and a method for cutting joke explanations.
- [Historical Fiction: Turn Sources into Plot Constraints](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/historical-fiction) — Set period, place and identity; turn systems, resources and procedures into plot constraints. Includes evidence tiers and a fictional canal-warehouse case.
- [How to Write Historical Speculative Fiction That Changes the Old Order](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/historical-premise-novel) — New information must pass through interpretation, power struggles, limited trials, and institutional consequences. Includes an original flood-map example.
- [Esports Fiction: Rules, Plays & Team Feedback Decide the Match](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/game-competition-novel) — Define the match goal and limits, then resolve choices through observable play, counters, and team feedback. Includes an original competitive-game example.
- [Entertainment-Industry Fiction: Turn Talent into Career Consequences](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/entertainment-industry-novel) — Make auditions, performances, and recordings prove skill; feedback should change roles, contracts, trust, or opportunities. Includes an audition example.
- [Urban Slice-of-Life Fiction: How to Avoid a Daily Log](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/urban-slice-of-life-novel) — Connect bills, work, neighbors, and family through a life goal, leaving changes in relationships, resources, or next steps. Includes repair-table example.
- [How to Write Folk Horror: One Taboo, Human Ties, and Consequences](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/folk-horror-fiction) — Embed one taboo in kinship, ritual, and practical interests, then escalate one causal chain. Includes a fictional well ritual and rules-horror comparison.
- [Fanqie vs Qidian Writing Styles: Two AI Briefs](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/fanqie-vs-qidian) — Turn one original premise into pace-first and immersion-first AI briefs, then compare opening focus, anticipation, and information order.
- [How to Write a Protagonist Who Hides Their Strength](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/hidden-strength-loop) — Plan a secretly powerful protagonist with a repeatable loop, a three-party information card, an original example, and a bounded AI prompt.
- [How to Write a Cultivation Arc in Xianxia Fiction](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-xianxia-novel) — Build cultivation around resources, costs and changed circumstances. Includes an original sect trial, a progression worksheet and ways to introduce ranks.
- [How to Write a Campus Romance](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-campus-novel) — Use schoolwork, clubs and peer pressure to move a romance beyond blushing. Includes dialogue, a relationship worksheet and repairs for misunderstandings.
- [How to Connect Arcs in an Infinite-Flow Novel](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-an-infinite-flow-novel) — Connect self-contained scenario arcs to an ongoing real-world objective. Includes an original dual-line outline and repairs for resets and unused rewards.
- [How to Write a Modern Superpower Novel](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-gaowu-novel) — Connect tests, training and combat to school, work and family consequences. Includes an original exam story and a power-to-consequence worksheet.
- [How to Connect Cultivation and Romance](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-xianxia-romance) — Use one event to change cultivation, status and relationships. Includes an original life-lamp scene and repairs for passive leads and disconnected romance.
- [How to Write Urban Cultivation Fiction](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-an-urban-cultivation-novel) — Make cultivation interact with modern processes, family and identity. Includes an original shop story and a worksheet for ability limits.
- [How to Write a Spy Thriller](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-spy-thriller) — Build a spy story around cover, intelligence access and consequences. Includes an original hospital story, an information table and dialogue repairs.
- [How to Write a Book-Transmigration Romance](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-book-transmigration-romance) — Test knowledge of a book against status, marriage arrangements and household rules. Includes an original ledger scene and a knowledge-limit worksheet.
- [How to Write Sports Fiction](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-sports-fiction-novel) — Connect match goals, limits, decisions and feedback. Includes an original match and training worksheet, with team changes that affect play.
- [Writing Business Fiction: Revenue, Costs, and Working Cash](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/revenue-costs-and-cash-in-business-fiction) — Separate sales, incurred costs, and available cash when writing business fiction. Includes a two-day stall example, repeat customers, and revision checks.
- [How to Write a Time-Loop Novel Without Repeating the Same Scene](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-time-loop-novel) — Define reset timing, retained memory, and object states. Includes four original clock-tower loops, a complete scene, and checks for an earned ending.
- [How to Write Marriage Before Love in a Novel](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-marriage-before-love-novel) — Marriage is a starting situation. Develop separate goals, boundaries and chosen closeness through a complete dinner negotiation and invitation scene.
- [How to Write Business-Management Fiction](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-business-management-novel) — Build a story from customer need through stock, terms, delivery and payment. Follow a complete stationery-shop order and its next capacity decision.
- [How to Write an Online-Game Novel](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-an-online-game-novel) — Use understandable quest rules, roles, actions and reward choices rather than lists of stats. Follow a complete escort quest and its team consequences.
- [How to Write a Dual Male Lead Novel](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-dual-male-lead-novel) — Connect two distinct goals to an external plot. A theater-credit scene shows cooperation, public choices and costs without fixed roles or affection quotas.

### Revise your novel / 小说改稿与去 AI 味
- [Revise your novel](https://zenstory.ai/guides/revision) — Fix weak prose, continuity mistakes, and chapters that stall.
- [AI Keeps Forgetting Your Novel? Track Characters and Plot](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/long-novel-continuity) — AI drifts over a long novel when the model is asked to remember the whole book. Oh Story keeps the state in files instead: what is true in the story, what each character knows and what the reader has seen are recorded separately in the project's tracking directory, and each new chapter loads only the current state and unfinished commitments. Anything still in the plan stays in the plan until the chapter that shows it is written. The three-chapter example below shows the handoff in practice, plus an optional clue design that separates a visible clue from a plausible misreading and gives the reveal consequences. The method targets two failures in particular: forgetting, and characters knowing answers too early.
- [Keep your writing voice when AI continues your novel](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/preserve-author-voice) — Describe the dimensions of your voice, give a short sample you own or may use, and keep those choices separate from the current book’s facts. Oh Story’s documented workflow resolves the current request, book style and relevant active author preferences before generic writing advice; a sample offers candidate observations, and a lasting preference needs your explicit confirmation. The goal is a continuation in fresh sentences that fits this narrator and scene, with sentence length set by your choices. The original comparison also shows a one-paragraph exception: keep extended observation, drop the semicolon pattern and the comic aside, and leave the book’s preferences as they are.
- [Turn AI manuscript feedback into a focused revision plan](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/review-and-revise) — Sort review comments before you rewrite anything. Connect each criticism to a passage and an established story constraint, then decide what to fix, what needs clarification and what is simply an alternative taste. A useful revision brief names the problem, approved action, facts to preserve, exact chapter or scene and possible effects on later chapters. Oh Story separates story-review findings from the chapter-revision workflow. The decision sheet below is an editorial aid that the author fills in and rules on. For wording alone, use the separate prose-revision guide; for which character or reader knows what, see long-novel continuity. For interchangeable character speech, start with the dialogue example and fix it as a dialogue problem first; consider a whole-book style change only after that. The revised scene below turns an accepted agency repair into dialogue and action while holding three constraints: the seal stays intact, the culprit stays hidden, and an agreement to register stays distinct from a completed registration.
- [Make AI Fiction Sound Human: Fix AI-Sounding Prose in Three Passes](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/revise-ai-prose) — To make AI fiction sound human, delete-test each flagged line, revise the rest in three ordered passes, and cap cuts so the prose never goes telegraphic.
- [How to Deconstruct a Novel Chapter by Chapter (Breakdown Template)](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/learn-from-fiction) — Study fiction with a fact log and mechanism card. An original scene shows how to separate disclosure, pacing and transferable methods.
- [Stuck Writing a Novel? Diagnose the Block and Write the Next Step](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/writers-block) — Diagnose goal, resistance, causality, scene or energy. Ask what the next step changes to find one writable action; avoid new lore and random accidents.
- [Readers Stop Returning? Fix Your Web Novel’s Pacing](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/reader-retention) — Diagnose a sagging serial through short-term questions, arc goals and the whole-story promise. Restore progress without abandoning the original appeal.
- [Use Fiction Tropes Without Copying: Redesign the Story](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/tropes-without-copying) — Learn from a trope’s dramatic function and emotional payoff, then redesign its characters, setting and causal chain. Includes an original worked example.
- [Web-Fiction Dealbreakers: Character Mistakes or Forced Plot?](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/reader-dealbreakers) — Spot web-fiction dealbreakers, from forced foolishness to stolen rewards. Use information, motives and consequences to judge what can be repaired.
- [Common Signs of AI-Like Prose: Diagnose the Sentence Before Rewriting](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/ai-tell-words) — Treat AI-like words as clues. Diagnose explanatory tone, vague emotion, and stock actions by function; rewrite with information, choice, and consequence.
- [When Removing AI-Like Prose Goes Too Far: Repair Telegraphic Writing](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/over-edited-prose) — Repair choppy fragments, action lists, and broken dialogue caused by over-editing. Lock the facts, then restore only necessary links and scene continuity.
- [AI Novel Chapter Too Short? Restore the Missing Beats](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/ai-novel-word-count) — AI chapter too short? Audit approved beats. Add only missing action, resistance, choice, and results; revise the plan or accept the current length.
- [AI-Assisted Novel Submission Checklist](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/ai-assisted-novel-submission) — Check route rules and AI-source provenance before submission. Includes a checklist, audit prompt, original example, and final-file check.
- [How to Fix Repetitive Actions in AI Fiction](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/ai-repeated-actions) — Fix AI fiction that repeats one beat as action, bodily reaction, and explanation. Use a mark-and-merge worksheet, example, checklist, and prompt.
- [How to Check AI Fiction for Continuity Errors](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/ai-fiction-consistency-check) — Audit AI-assisted fiction for factual, rule, timeline, causal, and cost conflicts. Cite both sides, separate evidence from severity, and recheck later chapters.
- [How to Fix Plot Logic With Cause and Effect](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/build-a-cause-and-effect-plot) — Turn an event list into a causal chain. Check knowledge, choices and outcomes with an original investigation example and a revision table.
- [How to Fix Character Continuity in a Short Drama](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/short-drama-character-memory) — Track goals, knowledge, relationships and unpaid costs between episodes. Includes a handoff example and repairs for unexplained knowledge or reset states.
- [How to Break Fiction into Readable Paragraphs](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-a-fiction-paragraph) — Break paragraphs at meaningful changes without fragmenting a continuous thought. Includes an original passage and repairs for dense or choppy prose.
- [How to Use Character Names and Pronouns Clearly](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/clear-character-names-and-pronouns) — Use names to reset attribution and pronouns to carry a continuous action. Includes an original group scene and a before-and-after revision.
- [How to Update Storyboards After a Script Change](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/update-storyboards-after-script-changes) — Trace changed script facts to existing assets, storyboards and prompts. Includes an original injury-timing example and a selective update table.
- [How to Check Later Chapters After Revising a Novel](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/sync-later-chapters-after-a-revision) — Trace a revised fact through written chapters. Check clues, knowledge and object ownership with an original example and a downstream-impact worksheet.
- [How to Revise a Formulaic AI Drama](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/revise-a-formulaic-ai-drama) — Locate repetition in causality, strategy, expression and shots. Includes an original diagnostic table and exceptions for deliberate recurring forms.
- [Sensory Details in Fiction: Attention Before Quantity](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/use-sensory-details-in-fiction) — Choose sensory detail through task, perceptual access and purpose. An original backstage revision shows when to use one sense or omit decoration.
- [Sentence Length in Fiction: Flow, Pauses and Emphasis](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/vary-sentence-length-in-fiction) — Vary sentence length for continuity, emphasis and pause while preserving facts. Compare three original versions of a string breaking on stage.
- [AI Fiction Research: Verify Sources and Scope](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/verify-research-for-ai-fiction) — Check dates, original sources and claim scope before using AI research. Includes a real official-notice check and a reusable research note.
- [Stop AI Polishing From Changing Your Plot](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/stop-ai-polishing-from-changing-your-plot) — Separate prose polishing from plot revision. Protect facts, knowledge sources and scene joins with a worked key-handoff example.
- [Get Specific AI Feedback on Your Manuscript](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/get-specific-ai-manuscript-feedback) — Turn vague criticism into located quotations, reader effects and bounded next steps. Separate necessary fixes, suggestions and author choices.
- [What to Revise First in a Novel](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/choose-what-to-revise-first-in-a-novel) — Diagnose story direction, causal design or prose before editing. Includes a change-of-mind example and clear stopping criteria.
- [Fix a Novel That Reads Like a Screenplay](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/fix-a-novel-that-reads-like-a-screenplay) — Distinguish intentional dialogue-heavy style from leaked camera and scene instructions. Restore viewpoint, choices and actual actions.
- [How to Revise a Novel Outline Mid-Draft](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/revise-a-novel-outline-mid-draft) — Separate established facts from future plans before changing an outline. Includes a mid-draft example, a candidate scene, and a bounded AI request.
- [How to Stop AI Fiction from Revealing Future Plot Too Soon](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/stop-ai-fiction-from-revealing-future-plot) — Specify the current payoff, protected later revelations, and stopping point. Includes an album-story repair and a focused revision brief.
- [How to Write Clear Action Sequences in Fiction](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/write-clear-action-sequences-in-fiction) — Check positions, held objects, and action order, then supply necessary connections. Includes a complete scene without an inventory of every movement.
- [How to Shorten an Overlong Novel Chapter Without Losing Its Story](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/shorten-an-overlong-novel-chapter) — Check length and required beats, then remove redundant explanation and process. Compare a complete scene before and after with the skill’s one-pass workflow.
- [How to Keep Multiple AI Novel Projects Separate](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/keep-multiple-ai-novels-separate) — Separate manuscripts, settings and progress. Follow a two-book switch with explicit paths and scope; an active-book selector is not session isolation.
- [How to Fix Inconsistent Prose Style in an AI Novel](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/fix-inconsistent-ai-novel-prose-style) — Resolve rhythm, viewpoint, dialogue and emotion separately. A rainy-night revision preserves story facts and knowledge while restoring the book’s voice.
- [How to Stop AI Fiction from Adding Unwanted Characters](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/stop-ai-fiction-from-adding-unwanted-characters) — Define this chapter’s cast, facts and stopping point. Distinguish incidental people from plot-changing additions, with a workshop example and local repair.
- [How to Stop AI Continuation Repeating the Previous Chapter](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/stop-ai-continuation-from-repeating-the-previous-chapter) — Separate rewriting from continuation and confirm the previous ending, completed events and next outline. A clock-shop example keeps continuity without replay.
- [How to Fix Viewpoint Drift in AI Fiction](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/fix-ai-fiction-viewpoint-drift) — Separate pronoun drift, access to other minds and premature knowledge. A sealed-letter revision keeps events intact without inventing observations or memories.
- [How to Stop AI Fiction Characters Knowing Secrets Too Soon](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/stop-ai-fiction-characters-from-knowing-secrets-too-soon) — Separate author facts, reader knowledge and character evidence. A complete interview-and-rota repair preserves privacy and the actual shift agreement.

### Book covers / 小说封面
- [Book covers](https://zenstory.ai/guides/book-covers) — Plan cover art and lettering, then check upload crops and thumbnail readability.
- [Writing Novel-Cover Prompts: Separate Genre, Composition and Text](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/novel-cover-prompts) — Translate a genre promise into subject, background, colour and light. Treat the title and author name as separate text layers.
- [How to Fix a Book Cover Title That Gets Cropped](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/fix-cropped-book-cover-text) — Locate cropped cover lettering in the original, upload file, and preview. Adjust the canvas or text, preserve the original, and check thumbnail readability.
- [How to Fix Incorrect Text on an AI Book Cover](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/fix-ai-book-cover-text) — Separate wrong lettering from cropping or small type. Use exact text, declare what an edit should retain, and compare a separate lettering workflow.
- [How to Make a Book Cover Readable as a Thumbnail](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/make-a-book-cover-readable-as-a-thumbnail) — Check title, subject and background at the actual small display size. Follow a complete bookshop-cover revision plan without claiming a fixed font rule.
- [How to Make a Book Cover Match the Story’s Genre](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/match-a-book-cover-to-your-story) — Use the synopsis, main action and tone to diagnose a misleading cover. Follow a complete space-station mystery brief without relying on title keywords alone.
- [How to Use a Reference Image for a Book Cover](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/use-reference-images-for-a-book-cover) — Declare whether an image is an editing target or style reference. Use a complete repair-shop cover brief with preserved identity, composition and exact text.
- [How to Make an AI Book Cover Look Illustrated](https://zenstory.ai/oh-story/make-an-ai-book-cover-look-illustrated) — Separate painted style from genre, character and type. A complete umbrella-maker brief preserves the subject, title and byline while changing the medium.

### Short-drama scripts / 短剧改编与剧本
- [Short-drama scripts](https://zenstory.ai/guides/short-drama) — Adapt a story into episodes, scenes, and shootable dialogue.
- [Novel to short drama: episodes, scripts and storyboards](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/novel-to-short-drama) — Start from the source facts you must keep and the changes you allow, then cut episodes around dramatic results and write one pilot before storyboarding. Drama Skills is an open-source agent skill suite that can help analyze the source, plan episode handoffs, write a pilot and develop its visual specifications and storyboard. Image, video, voice and music generation is a separate step: it shows you a preview and calls an external provider only after you confirm. This guide stops at a text handoff. Its original repair-shop example turns prose into visible action, then compares one-episode and three-episode versions and shows how to compress while keeping the reason for the protagonist’s choice. The same private thought is also compared as subjective VO and spoken dialogue, separating what the audience learns from what another character hears. A small dialogue revision lets the mother show concern while the rent problem stays and the decision remains her daughter’s.
- [How to Design a Paywall Cliffhanger for a Short Drama](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/paywall-episode) — Establish characters, rules, and stakes; produce a partial result; let it start the next action. Includes a placement table and multi-episode example.
- [How to Write a Short-Drama Episode Outline: Map and Example](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/episode-outline-template) — Cut episodes at visible state changes, not equal intervals. Includes an entry, pressure, choice, payoff, exit template and original episode example.
- [How to Write Episode-End Hooks: Give This Episode a Result, the Next a Task](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/episode-ending-hooks) — Build hooks from six changes: choices, new evidence, countermoves, spent resources, authority shifts, and blocked routes. Includes a rewrite and handoff.
- [How to Write a Short Drama's First Episode: Pick the Opening, Give the Character a Task](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/episode-one) — Start when pressure makes the hero’s old method costly. Compare entry points, allocate backstory, and build a goal, local result, and next-step question.
- [How to Write Misunderstandings: Coincidence, Choice, and Cost](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/coincidence-and-misunderstanding) — Build misunderstandings through credible evidence, clarification and responses. Includes a community film scene followed by approval and delivery.
- [Writing Revenge Micro-Dramas: Win Back Power with Every Reversal](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/revenge-micro-drama) — Define the earlier loss, leverage, and evidence. Build an actual response with a watch-return example that separates registration, review, and restoration.
- [Writing Secret-Baby Dramas: Give the Child a Goal of Their Own](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/secret-baby-drama) — Give the child a goal, track who knows what, and show adult responses. A science-fair scene demonstrates how a child's preference changes an arrangement.
- [Writing Micro-Drama Scripts: Turn Stories into Playable Scenes](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/screenwriting) — Work from an episode’s result to scene goals, opposition, turns and exit states. Includes an original script excerpt and a self-review method.
- [Micro-Drama Episode Structure: Build a Chain of Consequences](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/episode-structure) — Build an episode from entry state, goal and resistance, a turn, payoff and exit state. Test the causal chain with “therefore” and “but.”
- [Which Novels Suit Micro-Drama Adaptation? Look for Screen Action](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/adaptation-value) — Sort material into screen-ready, requiring a new vehicle, or prose-only. Assess adaptation value with new openings and a production-burden checklist.
- [Micro-Drama Dialogue: Goals, Responses and Subtext](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/micro-drama-dialogue) — Build dialogue from agendas, subtext risks, visible anchors and tactical shifts. Includes a speaker-swap test and an original exchange.
- [Fixing a Micro-Drama’s Sagging Middle: Give Characters New Choices](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/mid-season-sag) — Check repeated payoffs, then track information, strategies and relationships. Includes a complete supply-loss scene without forcing a higher cost every episode.
- [How to Write a Body-Swap Short Drama: Make Identity Change the Method](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/body-swap-story) — Tie an external task to identity permissions, recognition cues, and the cost of exposure. Includes an identity map and an original beat-by-beat example.
- [Short Drama: Preserve Character Function Before Cutting or Merging](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/adaptation-character-compression) — Cut subplots first, then merge characters by action, information, relationships, and causality. Includes a function ledger and an original gallery example.
- [How to Write Inner Monologue for Short Drama: Make It Performable](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/short-drama-inner-monologue) — Preserve how a thought changes a choice, then carry it through action, evidence, space, dialogue, or deliberate voice-over. Includes a cold-room example.
- [Reordering a Novel Timeline for Short Drama Without Breaking Causality](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/adaptation-timeline-reordering) — Map knowledge, prop, relationship, setup, and consequence dependencies before choosing when viewers learn each fact. Includes a mountain-rescue example.
- [Merge Scenes for Short Drama: Fewer Locations, Intact Causality](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/adaptation-scene-compression) — Map choices, evidence, relationships, and causal functions, then test time, agendas, information order, and reaction space. Includes a contest example.
- [How to Develop an Idea into a Short-Drama Series](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/idea-to-creative-brief) — Separate a premise from a story engine, compare two mechanisms in a compact brief, build an engine card, and test three rounds for real state change.
- [Vertical Drama Script Format: A Scene and Dialogue Template](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/vertical-drama-script-format) — Use this Markdown template for scene headings, action, dialogue, and production cues. Choose a format, then check AI edits against the source.
- [How to Write a Rebirth Short Drama](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/rebirth-short-drama) — Turn past-life knowledge into present action. Plan the first changed choice, audience knowledge, diverging memories and practical flashback production.
- [How to Write a Second-Chance Romance Drama](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/second-chance-romance-drama) — Make the old rupture specific and answer it through present action. Includes a repair worksheet, knowledge plan and practical use of recurring objects.
- [How to Write a Short-Drama Plot Twist](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/short-drama-plot-twists) — Distinguish revelation, reversal and an ending hook. Use established facts to change a plan, with an original evidence scene and a payoff worksheet.
- [How to Write a Family Short-Drama Series](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/write-a-family-drama-short-series) — Turn care, financial dependence and disputed history into action. Includes an original family scene, witness roles and concrete changes in boundaries.
- [How to Write a Workplace Comedy Short Drama](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/write-a-workplace-short-drama) — Build workplace comedy from process gaps, permissions and responsibility. Includes an original repair scene with visible proof and credible coworkers.
- [How to Write a Rules-Horror Short Drama](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/rules-horror-short-drama) — Make horror rules visible through tests, spatial changes and limited resources. Includes an original corridor scene and checks for lights, cast and props.
- [How to Write a Low-Budget Short Drama](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/low-budget-short-drama) — Review locations, cast, past settings, prop states and tested capabilities. Includes substitutions that preserve information, choices and results.
- [How to Write an Action Short Drama](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/action-short-drama) — Build action around a traceable mission, route and handoff. Includes an original evacuation scene and repairs for bigger action with no story progress.
- [How to Write a Costume Intrigue Short Drama](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/costume-intrigue-short-drama) — Turn status, evidence and decisions into visible action. Includes an original roster dispute, a power-state table and choices for documents and groups.
- [How to Write a Marriage-Before-Love Drama](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/marriage-before-love-short-drama) — Build intimacy from mutual needs and changing unequal terms. Includes an original arranged-living story, a boundaries table and repairs for controlling romance.
- [How to Make Xianxia Rules Visible in a Short Drama](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/xianxia-short-drama) — Show power limits through objects, position and consequences. Includes an original lamp scene, a spell-state table and alternatives to excessive effects.
- [How to Write a System-Power Short Drama](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/system-short-drama) — Connect tasks, choices, rewards and real consequences while reserving readable panels for post-production. Includes an original skill-reward scenario.
- [How to Write a Gentle Slice-of-Life Short Drama](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/healing-slice-of-life-short-drama) — Build gentle stories around a small goal, everyday cost and relationship change. Includes an original umbrella repair and ways to avoid empty warmth.
- [How to Write a Hidden-Identity Short Drama](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/hidden-identity-short-drama) — Connect a hidden identity to a task, recognition tests and relationship consequences. Includes an original acting-director story and knowledge table.
- [How to Write an Underdog Rise Short Drama](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/underdog-rise-short-drama) — Make dismissal concrete, then change judgments through verifiable results. Includes an original repair contest and witness roles beyond applause.
- [How to Control Suspense with Audience Information](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/control-suspense-with-audience-information) — Separate identity, sound and evidence reveals. Plan what viewers know now with an original visitor scene, avoiding hidden essentials or premature disclosure.
- [How to Add Sound Effects at the Right Moment in a Video](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/add-sound-effects-to-video) — Locate action and original audio, then place the cue in cut-local time. Follow a door-knock example with cue arithmetic and actual mixing boundaries.

### Storyboards and AI video / 分镜与 AI 视频
- [Storyboards and AI video](https://zenstory.ai/guides/ai-video) — Plan shots, keep characters consistent, and improve generated footage.
- [AI short drama character consistency across shots](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/character-consistency) — Cross-shot consistency in AI short drama breaks on costume, props and eyelines far more often than on faces. Drama Skills separates three things: persistent character identity, the Look compatible with the scene, and each shot's changing state. It then asks what each reference image is allowed to control in the current frame, and marks references as prompt-only, planned, or actually checked. Existing images do not have to be regenerated. The three-shot archive example below includes a reference-selection exercise. Text constraints reduce drift; confirm consistency by watching the generated shots.
- [Character turnaround sheet prompt template for AI, with 6 examples](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/character-turnaround-prompt) — A character turnaround sheet prompt states its purpose, one outfit, side and back anchors, lighting chosen for comparison and no labels. Plus 6 examples.
- [Seedance prompt guide: turn short drama shots into video prompts](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/seedance-prompts) — Write Seedance prompts with clear starts, ordered action and ends. Compare 2.0/2.5 timing, references and sound plans, then check actual video.
- [How to write a storyboard script: shot list template for short drama](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/script-to-storyboard) — A storyboard script gives each shot a row: source, purpose, framing, start state, action to end state, dialogue and duration. Copy the shot list template.
- [Image-to-Video Prompts: Reference Subtraction + 8 Motion Problems](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/image-to-video-prompts) — Delete static appearance, clothing, and setting; add hands, props, occlusion, and endpoint changes. Includes two tables and eight motion rewrites.
- [How to Use First and Last Frames for AI Video](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/first-last-frame) — Use first/last frames for clear endpoints and unimportant paths. Get definitions, fit checks and a prompt template; keep end facts out of frame one.
- [Unsatisfied with an AI Video? Reroll, Rewrite, Edit, or Reshoot](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/reroll-or-rewrite) — Ask if text controls the flaw and if it repeats. Reroll random failures sparingly, rewrite structural flaws, and edit or reshoot local defects.
- [When AI Video Actions Break: Preserve Story Facts, Rewrite the Action](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/generable-actions) — For failing actions, preserve the story fact; then substitute action, split the shot, hold a state, or use sound. Includes a rewrite and skip test.
- [Garbled AI Frame Text: Render, Reserve Space, or Add in Post](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/text-in-ai-frames) — Classify text by story role, then generate it, render it as graphics, reserve blank space, or add it later. Includes prompt and reference/subtitle checks.
- [Choose Motion-Comic Styles: Limited Animation, Anime, Ink Wash & Chibi](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/motion-comic-styles) — Choose a motion-comic style by character, action, line/color, and key information. Compare limited animation, anime, ink wash, and chibi in one scene.
- [Vertical Short-Drama Storyboarding: Blocking, Shot Size, and Overlays](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/vertical-storyboarding) — Keep relationships, key actions, and evidence readable before choosing shot size. A three-person example covers depth, reactions, and actual UI occlusion.
- [Micro-Drama Lighting: Source, Narrative Job and Continuity](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/short-drama-lighting-prompts) — Set shot intent: reveal or conceal; name source, direction, lit result and subject/background separation. Watch-repair example, template, continuity fixes.
- [Designing Camera Movement: Give Every Move a Story Motive](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/motivated-camera-movement) — Choose camera moves for shifts in attention, pressure or space—not by rote. Includes a lost-property scene, movement checklist and fixes.
- [Shot–Reverse-Shot Continuity: Track the Axis, Eyelines and Props](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/shot-reverse-shot-continuity) — Plan the axis, camera side and screen direction. Track crossings, third-person reactions and props through a three-person ticket-gate scene and checklist.
- [How to Design Sound for Short Drama: Dialogue and Music](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/scene-sound-and-silence) — Plan dialogue, ambience, music and silence for short drama. Use sound tables and original scenes to fix music restarts and abrupt changes between shots.
- [How to Time Short-Drama Dialogue with Action and Reaction](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/dialogue-timing) — Map every line, action, interruption, pause, and listener reaction on a timeline. Includes a copy-shop example, relative-beat template, and overload fixes.
- [AI Short-Drama Image Roles: Character, Setting, Composition & Style](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/reference-image-roles) — Set roles so references cannot override wardrobe, setting or composition. Nine roles, an original coastal weather-station example and conflict fixes.
- [Short-Drama Look Development: Representative-Frame Method](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/visual-look-development) — Define stable rules and variables for material, color, edges and space. Test characters, locations and high-pressure scenes with an original pool example.
- [How to Shoot Evidence Reveals: Make the Proof and Consequences Clear](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/evidence-reveal-storyboard) — Decide what viewers must read, then stage possession, reveal, response and consequence. Includes a complete brief comparing two rehearsal-room outage records.
- [How to Create Prop References for AI Video](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/prop-reference-image) — Fix a prop’s scale, form, materials, and working parts; list current open/closed state, damage, contents, and text separately. Includes a recorder board.
- [What Is an AI Motion Comic? A Workflow from Script to Final Cut](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/motion-comic) — Use art, keyframes, limited motion, voice, and editing. Choose static or dynamic; build script, visuals, shots, and sound. See an original breakdown.
- [How to Address Stiff AI-Video Acting: Make Emotion Visible](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/character-performance-prompts) — Start with goal, trigger, and shot size; choose gaze, voice, body, or decisive action, not stacked emotion words. Includes an original dance-class example.
- [How to Write Prompts for Targeted AI Image Edits: What to Change and Keep](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/local-image-edit-prompts) — Name the area, change, and what stays; note occlusion and effects on related images. Includes an original removal example, preview, and revision tips.
- [Keep AI Characters Consistent Across Costume Changes](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/character-look-variants) — Separate identity, reusable looks, brief deltas, and shot state. Includes a character card, look registry, three-look example, and mismatch fix.
- [How to Write Hailuo H3 Prompts: Structure, Sound, and Reference Modes](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/hailuo-h3-prompts) — Write Hailuo H3 prompts with a visual timeline, soundscape, and audience-only score. Includes a flower-shop example, mode choices, and fixes.
- [How to Find Continuity Breaks Between AI Short-Drama Shots](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/shot-continuity-checklist) — Compare each shot's end with the next shot's start across position, props, visible state, light, text, and action stage; find and repair the first break.
- [How to Keep Locations Consistent Across AI Video Shots](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/ai-video-location-consistency) — Keep room layout, viewing direction and temporary states separate. Use location references to preserve doors, routes and light sources, with filled examples.
- [AI Video Lip Sync Problems: Check Speaker, Audio Role and Timing](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/ai-video-lip-sync) — Separate visible dialogue, off-screen speech and voiceover, then budget time for the full line. Includes a two-person example and a repair table.
- [How to Match Color Between AI Video Shots](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/match-ai-video-shot-color) — Distinguish generated drift from intended light changes, then compare matching regions. Includes an original counter scene and focused correction checks.
- [How to Cut Away During Continuous Dialogue](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/cut-away-during-continuous-dialogue) — Locate the spoken line before cutting to a useful reaction or object. Includes an original key-return scene, interval table and workflow limits.
- [How to Storyboard a Single-Room Short Drama](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/storyboard-a-single-room-short-drama) — Stage a one-room scene through exits, object control and character purposes. Includes an original locker-room scene and repairs for pointless movement.
- [AI Short-Drama Edit List Template](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/ai-short-drama-edit-list-template) — Record footage, boundaries, reasons, subtitles and sound treatment in one edit list. Includes an original example and timing-update checks.
- [How to Cast Distinct Voices for an AI Short Drama](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/choose-distinct-short-drama-voices) — Choose character voices through actual auditions, separating stable identity from scene performance. Includes an original casting table and listening checks.
- [How to Fix the Wrong Era in AI Drama Images](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/match-ai-drama-visuals-to-the-era) — Anchor the era in story facts before checking devices, furnishings and clothing. Includes an original office example and selective repairs.
- [How to Add a Video Frame and Logo Without Obstruction](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/add-a-brand-frame-to-video) — Place static frames, title bars and logos as separate layers on the actual canvas. Includes an original layout and obstruction and audio checks.
- [How to Replace an Unintended Black Video Tail](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/replace-a-black-video-tail-with-an-endcard) — Distinguish an intentional pause from an unfinished tail, then supply the intended still or animated endcard. Includes an original timing plan and checks.
- [How to Storyboard a Group Confrontation](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/storyboard-a-group-confrontation) — Map who protects, pressures, witnesses and decides before placing the cast. Includes an original scene and repairs for conflicting positions and reactions.
- [How to Storyboard Ball Sports for AI Video](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/storyboard-ai-video-ball-sports) — Keep the ball’s origin, controller and transfer readable. Includes an original pass sequence and repairs for teleporting objects or reversed movement.
- [How to Fix Object Handoffs in AI Video](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/fix-object-handoffs-in-ai-video) — Specify approach, contact, release and new possession. Includes an original handover prompt and repairs for conflicting hands or duplicated objects.
- [Replay an AI Drama Action from Multiple Angles](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/replay-an-action-from-multiple-angles) — Replay a peak action deliberately without repeating its result. An original reveal plan covers the primary shot, shared states and the next shot.
- [Extra People or Duplicate Characters in AI Video](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/fix-extra-people-in-ai-video) — Check reference roles, visible cast and entry paths when AI video adds people or duplicates a character. Includes an original prompt repair.
- [How to Keep Music Continuous Across AI-Generated Video Shots](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/music-continuity-across-shots) — Does music restart or hard-cut when separately generated shots are joined? Map its entry, exit, continuation, or dialogue ducking, then replay the joined cut.
- [AI Video Room Tone Jumps Between Shots: A Checklist](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/ai-video-ambient-sound-continuity) — Does ambience jump between AI-generated shots of the same space? Track location/view and recurring sound, explain changes, then replay the actual cut.
- [Short-Drama Subtitles: Text, Timing and Placement](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/add-and-time-short-drama-subtitles) — Fix wrong, late or obstructive captions: verify script text, locate speech, convert clip timing and review readability in the finished cut.
- [Where to Trim an AI Video: Actions and Reactions](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/choose-ai-video-in-and-out-points) — Trim waiting, drift and repeated motion by marking usable spans, then choosing cuts that preserve complete speech, action results and reactions.
- [AI Video Camera Drift: Lock or Time the Move](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/stop-unwanted-ai-video-camera-drift) — Wanted a still camera but got a push or orbit? Check accepted motion, resolve prompt conflicts and specify framing, allowed action and hold intervals.
- [Fix Deformed Hands in AI Video](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/fix-deformed-hands-in-ai-video) — Locate hand defects in references, motion and object contact. Reduce competing fine actions while preserving required technique and story facts.
- [Fix Slow Actions in AI Video](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/fix-slow-actions-in-ai-video) — Separate deliberate waiting, delayed starts and stretched motion. Plan beats within the accepted duration and select usable footage from actual results.
- [How to Write Negative Prompts for AI Video](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/write-negative-prompts-for-ai-video) — Tie exclusions to the shot’s actual states, text, and sound requirements. Includes a before-and-after example and a reference-image check.
- [How to Direct Multiple Characters in AI Video](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/direct-multiple-characters-in-ai-video) — Avoid identical reactions in group shots. Use character goals, knowledge timing, and framing. Includes an original rehearsal scene and attention worksheet.
- [How to Plan a One-Take AI Video Scene](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/write-a-one-take-ai-video-scene) — Plan a continuous scene with clear space, actions, sound, and an ending. Includes an original farewell, prompt, timing checks, and when to split.
- [How to Write AI Video Prompts for Empty Shots](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/write-ai-video-establishing-and-empty-shots) — Give empty shots a purpose in place, waiting, or aftermath. Distinguish location references from footage, with a cinema example and sound boundaries.
- [AI Video Speaking the Wrong Language? Check Prompts, Dialogue, and Audio](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/fix-wrong-spoken-language-in-ai-video) — Separate prompt language from spoken dialogue. Preserve verbatim lines and speaker roles, then check the actual audio with a bilingual worked example.
- [How to Fix a Static Character in Image-to-Video](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/fix-a-static-subject-in-image-to-video) — Check the intended action, starting image, and constraints. Includes a complete stand-and-walk prompt and checks for the actual result.
- [How to Keep AI Video Effects Within Their Target](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/keep-ai-video-effects-within-the-target) — Bound an effect by trigger, target, end state, and preservation. Includes a complete material-change prompt and checks for unaffected objects.
- [How to Fix Sliding Feet in AI Video](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/fix-sliding-feet-in-ai-video) — Check foot contact, body travel, and floor anchors. Includes a complete doorway-walk prompt and checks for preserving the shot’s purpose.
- [How to Fix Floating Props in AI Video](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/fix-floating-props-in-ai-video) — Separate lost support, unintended carried motion, and chosen effects. Includes a complete tabletop-envelope prompt and repair checks.
- [AI Video Character Changes Face After Turning: How to Fix It](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/fix-character-face-changes-after-turning) — Check identity across front, side and back views, real references and the turn itself. Includes a complete prompt and review without consistency guarantees.
- [How to Choose Video Transitions: Cuts, Dissolves and Scene Changes](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/choose-video-transitions) — Choose transitions by the action, scene change or pause viewers need to understand. Includes a complete original edit plan and actual tool limits.
- [How to Fix Cropped Characters in AI Video](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/fix-cropped-characters-in-ai-video) — Separate reference cropping, movement out of frame and later aspect-ratio changes. A counter scene keeps the head, important hands and accepted action visible.
- [How to Fix Repeated Actions in AI Video](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/fix-repeated-actions-in-ai-video) — Distinguish intended repetition, generation rebound and repeated edits. A cup-placement example defines contact, release, final hold and usable footage.
- [How to Fix Wrong Eyelines in AI Video](https://zenstory.ai/drama-skills/fix-wrong-eyelines-in-ai-video) — Separate body direction, gaze target and camera position. A counter-scene brief moves attention from a person to a blue circle while preserving other states.

### Interactive stories and games / 互动故事与游戏
- [Interactive stories and games](https://zenstory.ai/guides/interactive-games) — Turn a novel into player actions, branching stories, and a playable game.
- [Adapt a novel into a game: pick a playable slice, then build](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/quick-start) — Start with a novel you own or are authorized to adapt, then choose a bounded experience in which a player can act and see a consequence. A useful first slice keeps the source’s particular pressure while limiting scenes, systems and assets. Novel to Game’s seven skills take an agreed brief through analysis, concept and design to a built candidate. The ferry example below shows how to choose the scope before building; a playable result needs a built candidate that passes its runtime checks. Once a candidate exists, sort each comment into a misleading line, a result that breaks the approved rules or a new design request before asking for another build. The author-feedback examples below show how to keep the next change small and handle a different story as a new design decision.
- [Adapt a novel scene into meaningful choices and endings](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/meaningful-choices) — Start with what the player can change, and put choices only there. Make an important decision’s trade-off understandable, then write a response that preserves what the player actually chose. This original ferry scene goes from source facts to two decision points, advance information, a confirmation exchange and three different ending passages. A meaningful choice can also converge on an existing ending as long as its route history carries through, and expressive wording has a place too when it is presented as flavor. What follows is an editorial design draft, written before any build or playtest.
- [Choosing Gameplay for a Novel Adaptation: Start with Repeated Actions](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/choose-gameplay) — Use recurring actions, rules and costs to compare puzzles, management and interactive narrative. See three original designs and a fill-in concept card.
- [How to Design Resource Costs: Calculate Every Route to Its End](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/resource-cost-design) — Calculate energy, sampling, and return costs in a rover level, then fix accidental dead ends and dominant solutions while preserving clear choices.
- [How to Design a Game’s Core Loop](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/gameplay-core-loop) — Define player goals, actions, world rules, state changes, and readable feedback, then test the loop with a complete Paper City path.
- [How to Design a Game Level](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/game-level-pacing) — Plan level pacing with entry states, new decisions, visible responses, and end markers; recombine learned rules instead of adding enemies and puzzles.
- [How to Design Game Feedback Players Can Understand](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/readable-gameplay-feedback) — Design feedback around pre-action conditions, input responses, state changes, outcomes, and next steps, with an original mechanical post office example.
- [How to Design Game Failure and Restarts](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/game-failure-and-restart) — Distinguish hard failure, soft failure, and weaker outcomes. Define what is lost or preserved, where play resumes, and the state restored on restart.
- [How to Design an AI Text Adventure Without Invented Outcomes](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/llm-text-games) — Use a compact turn card to connect current facts, player action, conditions, actual change, and narration without inventing success.
- [Turn a Novel into an AI Text Adventure: Start with One Scene](https://zenstory.ai/dsh/deepseek-text-adventure) — Adapt one novel scene into an AI text adventure. Preserve source facts, define the player’s goal and choices, and test one path before expanding.
- [How to Organize AI-Assisted Voice Lines for a Small Game](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/game-voice-assets) — Track approved game lines by ID, speaker, trigger, subtitle, source, output, and fallback; check pronunciation, skip, mute, missing audio, and restart.
- [How to Design Multiple Endings That Reflect Player Choices](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/design-multiple-endings-in-a-game) — Tie endings to a small set of tracked decisions, make each outcome resolve the central promise, and show the cost of the chosen route.
- [How to Write a Visual Novel Script with Clear Routes](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/write-a-visual-novel-script) — Plan the common route, define what opens each character route, and write dialogue with clear speaker, scene, and choice state.
- [How to Write a Game Quest with a Clear Goal and Payoff](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/write-a-game-quest) — Give each quest a player-readable goal, a reason to act, meaningful steps, and a reward that changes future options.
- [How to Write Video-Game Dialogue That Fits Play](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/write-video-game-dialogue) — Keep lines tied to character goals and game state, avoid narrating visible actions, and test dialogue in the actual interaction.
- [How to Tell a Story Through a Game Environment](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/tell-a-game-story-through-the-environment) — Use object placement, damage, access, and repeated locations to show what happened and what players can infer.
- [How to Playtest a Novel-to-Game Adaptation](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/playtest-a-novel-game-adaptation) — Test whether players understand the game's goals, source identity, choices, and story feedback without relying on your explanation.
- [How to Plan a Branching Game Story](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/map-a-branching-game-story) — Choose a branch structure and preserve consequences at shared scenes. Includes an original investigation map, state variants and a practical content budget.
- [How to Design a Relationship System for a Game](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/design-a-relationship-system) — Define how trust and promises alter behavior before adding affinity scores. Includes concrete states, threshold checks and responses beyond repeated gifts.
- [How to Prototype a Narrative Game](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/prototype-a-story-driven-game-vertical-slice) — Test knowledge, choices and consequences in one complete scene before expansion. Includes an original scope, contrasting play paths and local failure diagnosis.
- [How to Design Randomness Around Player Decisions](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/design-game-randomness) — Define what randomness changes while preserving readable choices and consequences. Includes an original ferry game, dead-end checks and seeded comparisons.
- [How to Preserve Choices in Story-Game Saves](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/design-story-game-saves) — Separate current state from event history and preserve promises, knowledge and delayed consequences. Includes an original festival save table and reload checks.
- [How to Design NPCs With Goals and Memory](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/design-game-npcs) — Give NPCs desires, leverage, knowledge and active responses, with depth matched to their role. Includes an original vendor who does more than wait for clicks.
- [How to Design Clues for a Story Game](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/design-clues-for-a-detective-game-adaptation) — Separate evidence, supported conclusions and uncertain explanations. Includes an original ticket mystery with observation, questions and earned reveals.
- [How Much of a Novel Should a Game Adapt?](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/scope-a-novel-game-adaptation-for-a-small-team) — Separate source understanding from production scope. Preserve defining rules and tensions with an original adaptation table and a complete playable goal.
- [How to Simplify a Story Game Interface](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/organize-a-story-game-interface) — Separate persistent signals, current evidence and archives. Includes an original harbor scene and interface repairs that preserve readable text.
- [How to Fix a Game Screen That Is Too Dark](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/fix-an-overly-dark-game-interface) — Separate atmosphere from essential visual information. Includes an original night warehouse, four readability layers and viewport checks.
- [How to Define an Ancient-Fantasy Game Art Style](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/define-an-ancient-fantasy-game-art-style) — Calibrate period, visual medium and character treatment separately. Includes an original canal-city game, feedback repairs and an in-game target frame.
- [How to Design Skippable Game Cutscenes](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/design-skippable-game-cutscenes) — Make cutscenes read confirmed state and define boundaries and fallbacks. Includes an original lighthouse sequence and skip-path checks.
- [How to Write Clear Interactive Story Choices](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/write-clear-interactive-story-choices) — Make options state real actions, with distinct cost cues and responses. Includes an original testimony scene and boundaries for hidden consequences.
- [How to Design Deadlines in a Story Game](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/design-time-limits-in-a-story-game) — Define time advancement, commitments and visible deadline consequences. Includes an original ferry task and checks for early or repeated triggers.
- [How to Integrate AI Media into a Story Game](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/put-ai-media-assets-into-a-story-game) — Save generated media as stable game assets, connect it to state triggers and retain a fallback. Includes an original ferry scene and failure checks.
- [Buttons or Free Text: Choose a Story Game Input](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/choose-buttons-or-free-text-input) — Choose input from player actions. Compare buttons and free text in an original courier task, with finite intent, clear costs and readable outcomes.
- [How to Analyze Gameplay References](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/analyze-gameplay-references) — Analyze references by actions, loops, pressure and mastery. Use an original adaptation worksheet to state what to borrow, omit and test.
- [Balance Game Numbers by Comparing Strategies](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/balance-game-numbers-by-comparing-strategies) — Define what breaks a tradeoff, compare strategies from the same start, then change the situation. Includes repair costs and deadline calculations.
- [Too Many Game Stats? Keep Those That Affect Choices](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/reduce-unused-game-stats) — Audit generation, spending, rule checks and feedback. Separate strategic resources, story facts and history with a repair-commission example.
- [How to Stop Game Characters Knowing Secrets Too Early](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/stop-characters-knowing-secrets-too-early) — Separate facts, player knowledge, and character knowledge. Use a private-note example to check disclosure, inference, and merged branches.
- [How to Design a Second Playthrough for a Story Game](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/design-a-second-playthrough-for-a-story-game) — Choose replay for another route, new judgment, or a different strategy. Keep real tradeoffs and knowledge boundaries without compulsory randomness.
- [How to Design Items for a Story Game](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/design-items-for-a-story-game) — Make items affect available actions. Includes a complete borrowed-flashlight design, failed uses, ownership, and save-state checks.
- [How to Design Locked Options in a Story Game](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/design-locked-options-in-a-story-game) — Explain current requirements without exposing unknown routes. Includes a permission-and-key example, stale-state handling, and counterchecks.
- [How to Design a Game Opening Tutorial](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/design-a-game-opening-tutorial) — Teach one core action through visible information, a recoverable mistake, and feedback. Includes a complete opening delivery task and playtest questions.
- [How to Design Rewards in a Story Game](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/design-rewards-in-a-story-game) — Design rewards around later actions and check award, use, and callbacks. Includes two poster-stall upgrade paths beyond a larger number.
- [How to Design Exploration Routes in a Story Game](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/design-exploration-routes-in-a-story-game) — Connect readable landmarks, a main route, and optional routes to the current goal. Includes a sketchbook-return path with a remembered favor.
- [How to Fix a Story Game That Cannot Progress](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/fix-a-story-game-that-cannot-progress) — Check reachable actions from the current state, distinguishing unclear guidance, declared failure, and an unintended dead end. Includes a key-loan repair.
- [How to Connect Combat Results to a Game Story](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/connect-game-combat-results-to-the-story) — Make aftermath read actual results, choices, and delivered rewards. Includes two tournament paths without rewriting victory or making it solve every problem.
- [How to Design Puzzles for a Story Game](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/design-puzzles-for-a-story-game) — Fix the answer and rules, then connect visible clues to a real action. Includes a complete symbol-order puzzle, wrong answers, and an unread-clue route.
- [How to Design Crafting in a Story Game](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/design-crafting-in-a-story-game) — Define crafting conditions, consumed materials, retained tools, and output ownership. Includes a complete prop-room route and failure cases.
- [Game Story Changes After Loading a Save: How to Fix It](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/fix-story-state-after-loading-a-save) — Diagnose lost choices, duplicate rewards and leaked knowledge after loading. Includes a complete save/load path and version-compatibility checks.
- [How to Fix a Game Button That Does Nothing](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/fix-a-game-button-that-does-nothing) — A highlighted button does not prove an action happened. Separate missing input, rule rejection and hidden results with an original diagnostic path.
- [How to Design Dialogue History in a Visual Novel](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/design-dialogue-history-in-a-story-game) — Design an on-demand dialogue backlog with speakers, the actual route and an explicit rollback policy, using a complete repair-shop example and AI brief.
- [How to Fix Small Game Buttons and Accidental Taps on Mobile](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/fix-small-game-buttons-on-mobile) — Check actual touch targets, spacing and choice text, with a complete delivery example that enlarges controls while preserving actions, costs and results.
- [How to Fix Text That Is Too Small in a Mobile Game](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/fix-small-text-in-a-mobile-game) — Check fonts, size, spacing and occlusion in the real game viewport. Follow a library scene redesign without changing choices or story state.
- [How to Design Mute and Volume Settings for a Story Game](https://zenstory.ai/novel-to-game/design-mute-and-volume-settings-in-a-story-game) — Separate music, speech and cues while retaining rules, choices and results when muted. A museum-closing route checks settings, resuming and restart behaviour.

### Video scripts and editing / 视频解说与剪辑
- [Video scripts and editing](https://zenstory.ai/guides/video-recaps) — Write narration from footage, edit a story, and finish audio and subtitles.
- [Export a video recap as an editable CapCut or JianYing draft](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/capcut-draft) — To keep editing a finished recap in JianYing or CapCut, export its existing timeline.json as an editable draft built from the source clips and per-segment narration. Video Recap Skills' standalone exporter puts the source clips with their original sound, the narration and optional music on separate tracks, keeps captions as text, and by default bundles the media into a draft folder under --out-dir, so the draft still opens after being moved. The export reads only the timeline and the media it references: ASR, visual understanding and TTS stay idle, and the rendered MP4 stays as it is. The rehearsal example below compares two edits, including what else has to move when a voiceover moves.
- [Make a video recap with Chinese narration from local footage](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/video-to-narration) — Video Recap Skills separates a Chinese-narration recap into understanding, editorial planning, narration, voiceover and assembly. Starting from an authorized local video, it builds a scene/speech/frame evidence index, chooses a viewer promise and POV, and writes only claims that evidence or supplied context supports. It can deliver a rendered MP4 or an editable draft. The source need not already have narration: the original no-dialogue example below compares two story angles and writes a short Chinese script that treats a promise written on screen as still untested. A separate partial-source variant covers footage that stops after the first attempts: request the missing payoff footage, or propose a narrower account and let the creator decide whether a fixed direction changes.
- [Video recap audio: keep the original sound or add narration?](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/original-audio-and-narration) — Let the sound that carries the event lead: a complete spoken line, a switch click or a meaningful wait tells its own part, so narration can stay out of its way. When viewers need context, say only what is supported and useful at that moment. This original radio example assigns five beats, then compares shortening a context sentence with removing it. Shortening keeps the owner’s reluctance to replace the radio without inventing poverty, and both options keep the wait after the switch fails to respond. Cutting narration leaves the dialogue captions in place; only extra commentary goes. The whole example stays at the written-plan stage; voiceover and mixing come later.
- [How to Write a Recap Script: Give Images and Narration Jobs](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/recap-script) — Build a recap around a promise to viewers, a main perspective and beats of change. Keep key original audio; narrate context, causality and interpretation.
- [Writing Clip Titles and On-Screen Text That the Video Supports](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/clip-titles) — Find a reason to watch that the clip can deliver. Give persistent titles, cover text, post titles, annotations and time-and-place labels distinct jobs.
- [How to Control Editing Rhythm: Cut Waiting, Keep Action and Reaction](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/editing-rhythm) — Judge rhythm through precise in and out points and reaction shots. Separate dead time from useful pauses with an original cut comparison and review method.
- [How to Edit Multiple Videos into One Complete Story](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/multi-video-story-edit) — Organize multiple videos around one question, story roles, changes, and evidence instead of file order. Includes an original three-source edit plan.
- [How to Research Before Writing a Video Recap](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/recap-background-research) — Research necessary relationships, prior events, and terms. Keep external context separate from current images and dialogue to avoid unsupported claims.
- [How to Lay Out Video Subtitles and Choose Line Breaks: Lock Picture and Sound, Then Check Sample Frames](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/subtitle-layout-and-line-breaks) — Separate spoken sentences from subtitle cues and line breaks, then inspect bright, dark, close-up, and long-caption frames for legibility and occlusion.
- [SRT Subtitles Out of Sync with AI Narration: Offset, Drift, or One Bad Cue?](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/subtitle-timing-evidence) — SRT early, late, or drifting from AI narration? Check the final video’s start, middle, and end, diagnose the pattern, repair it, and replay the render.
- [How to Write a YouTube Video Script Viewers Can Follow](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/write-a-youtube-video-script) — Define the viewer’s question, organize the answer into clear beats, and plan what the audience sees as well as hears.
- [How to Turn a Long Video into Short Clips That Stand Alone](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/turn-a-long-video-into-short-clips) — Choose moments with a complete point, add only the context needed to understand them, and make each clip’s title match its evidence.
- [How to Fix Flash Frames and Stray Shots in an Edit](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/fix-flash-frames) — Distinguish stray frames from useful fast cuts, exposure changes and crop jumps. Inspect the rendered video, repair source boundaries and review the result.
- [How to Fix Music That Overpowers Speech](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/background-music-overpowers-voice) — Assign speech and music roles before adjusting levels. Includes an original recap audio table and checks against global volume changes and repeated mixing.
- [How to Keep Approved Audio When Changing Picture](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/keep-audio-when-changing-video) — Check whether picture changes alter timing, then pair independent picture and a complete soundtrack. Includes input checks, failures and subtitle rebinding.
- [How to Fix AI Voiceover That Runs Too Long](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/fit-voiceover-to-a-picture-edit) — Compare authored text, spoken text, audio duration and output windows. Includes an original compression example and checks against clipping or excessive speed.
- [How to Keep AI Edit Revisions Local](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/revise-one-part-of-ai-edit) — Locate feedback by shot, sentence and time range, and record what this revision keeps. Includes a change list to prevent a small edit becoming a remake.
- [How to Dub an English Video into Chinese](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/translate-an-english-video-into-chinese) — Verify the English transcript and sentence translations before dubbing into the original windows. Includes an original demo and current workflow limits.
- [Fix Automatic Subtitle Errors in a Video Recap](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/fix-automatic-subtitle-errors) — Correct names and negation against actual speech. Separate narration, dialogue and burned text, then choose the right subtitle source and clock.
- [How to Make a Video with Original Audio and No Voiceover](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/make-a-video-with-original-audio-and-no-voiceover) — Choose processed source audio, copying an adopted track, or pairing a new picture with a locked mix. Includes an operation request and listening checks.
- [How to Combine Landscape and Portrait Videos](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/combine-landscape-and-portrait-videos) — Choose a canvas for mixed video orientations, distinguish fitting from cropping, and check people, objects, subtitles, and cuts with a worked example.
- [How to Fix Dialogue Cut Off by a Video Edit](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/fix-dialogue-cut-off-in-video) — Distinguish clipped speech, masking, and missing source audio. Restore complete source dialogue with an original borrowing example and updated output timing.
- [How to Fix Uneven Volume Between AI Voiceover Segments](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/fix-uneven-ai-voiceover-volume) — Separate segment levels, peak guards, and final mixing. Includes gain examples and listening checks without confusing RMS targets with measured LUFS.
- [How to Fix Missing Words in AI Voiceover](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/fix-missing-words-in-ai-voiceover) — Find whether words were shortened, omitted by TTS, or lost in assembly. Compare approved text, segment audio, and the current video.
- [How to Fix Long Pauses Between AI Voiceover Lines](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/fix-long-pauses-in-ai-voiceover) — Separate silence inside a WAV, authored windows, pause settings, and actual placement. Includes a timing example that preserves intentional sound.
- [How to Fix a Video Export with No Sound](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/fix-a-video-export-with-no-sound) — Check the current version, source streams, edited intermediate, voiceover segments, and final audio mode. A silence track cannot restore missing sound.
- [How to Fix Music Swells Between Voiceover Lines](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/fix-music-swells-between-voiceover-lines) — Separate uneven voice segments from music repeatedly recovering in pauses. Includes a ducking-window example, short gaps, and intentional longer breaks.
- [How to Fix Inconsistent AI Voiceover Voices](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/fix-inconsistent-ai-voiceover-voices) — Locate the audible change, then check requested voices, cached segments, and files used in the export. Includes a three-segment repair plan.
- [How to Improve Robotic AI Voiceover Delivery](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/fix-robotic-ai-voiceover-delivery) — Check script flow, segmentation, supported delivery controls, and later speed changes. Includes a bounded example with exact text preserved.
- [How to Fix Repeated Lines in AI Voiceover](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/fix-repeated-lines-in-ai-voiceover) — Separate repeated text, reused segment audio, and duplicate placement. Includes a repair plan that restores the intended second line.
- [How to Fix Pitch Changes After Speeding Audio](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/fix-pitch-changes-after-speeding-audio) — Locate pitch changes in source audio, narration, or playback. Includes a ten-to-eight-second plan checking filters, cumulative speed, and listening.
- [How to Fix Video Audio Playing on One Side](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/fix-video-audio-playing-on-one-side) — Separate playback faults, an empty channel, and intentional stereo. Includes a narration repair example and the limits of normalization and stream copy.
- [How to Fix a Blurry Video Export](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/fix-blurry-video-export) — Compare source, edited master and export to locate scaling or encoding loss. Includes an original diagnostic plan and real settings from the skill.
- [How to Fix Audio and Video Out of Sync After Editing](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/fix-audio-video-sync-after-editing) — Trace desynchronization through source footage, edited picture, sound beds and export. Includes a complete original repair plan and actual tool limits.
- [Why Subtitles Disappear After Video Export and How to Fix It](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/fix-subtitles-missing-from-video-export) — Check the actual delivery, caption layer, burn-in setting and complete cue list. Includes a two-line repair plan that preserves adopted sound.
- [How to Fix Distorted Video Audio: Source, Mix and Export](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/fix-distorted-audio-in-video-export) — Locate distortion in the source, mix or delivery. Includes float-mix and master-gain calculations, followed by encoded-output measurement and listening.
- [How to Reduce Video Export File Size Without Losing Key Content](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/reduce-video-export-file-size) — Check bytes, duration and encoding, try the skill’s actual re-encoding controls, and review a complete paper-box tutorial plan for legibility and sound.
- [How to Fix Subtitles That Do Not Match the Voiceover](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/fix-subtitles-that-do-not-match-the-voiceover) — Compare approved text, TTS spoken text, adopted audio and subtitle sources. A keep/delete example separates content mismatch from timing errors.
- [How to Fix AI Voiceover That Speaks Too Fast](https://zenstory.ai/video-recap/fix-ai-voiceover-that-speaks-too-fast) — Check raw delivery, global speed and local fitting. A worked example preserves a negation and rechecks picture timing, captions and the final sound.


## Workbench docs
Product documentation for the ZenStory workbench only (the hosted browser app at https://app.zenstory.ai, project page https://zenstory.ai/workbench). Single URL per page, 中文 first with the English translation below. Index: https://zenstory.ai/docs — getting started, user guide, advanced, reference, troubleshooting.

- [Start writing in the browser workbench](https://zenstory.ai/docs/getting-started/quick-start): how to start in one session: create, target project files, request scoped help, save, export.
- [Write your first short story in ZenStory](https://zenstory.ai/docs/getting-started/first-project): a first short story from premise to TXT export, with facts, open choices and project files.
- [AI writing assistant: context and continuation](https://zenstory.ai/docs/user-guide/ai-assistant): how to give the assistant the right context: focused files, attachments, quotes, scoped requests and recovery.
- [Revise a passage in the workbench editor](https://zenstory.ai/docs/user-guide/editor): manual writing, quotations, review decisions, and save and conflict boundaries.
- [Use reference materials in the browser workbench](https://zenstory.ai/docs/user-guide/materials): TXT limits, asynchronous decomposition, result categories and explicit attachments.
- [Export a manuscript from the workbench](https://zenstory.ai/docs/user-guide/export): sequence-aware TXT export, a separate review copy, and bringing back offline edits.
- [Choose the scope of version recovery](https://zenstory.ai/docs/user-guide/version-history): file versions versus project snapshots, and comparing before recovery.
- [AI Memory: settings, progress and open ideas](https://zenstory.ai/docs/advanced/ai-memory): four editable project-summary fields, saved facts versus plans, and context budgets.
- [Browser writing workflow: decisions to saved prose](https://zenstory.ai/docs/advanced/workflow-tips): what to keep in context, what to save, and what the workbench does not promise.
- [Material analysis: source evidence to your own scene](https://zenstory.ai/docs/advanced/material-analysis): separate evidence from interpretation, then transfer the changed goal and cost into your own scene.

## Optional

- [Pricing for the hosted workbench](https://app.zenstory.ai/pricing)
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