Need a Prompt for a Pre-Storyform Builder Session

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@jhull You really helped me create a Storyform-to-Scenes workflow: Generating Scene - Event Plans , and that was perfect. Now I need help not blowing a month’s worth of tokens in a day and a half when brainstorming a storyform.

I need help creating an efficient chat prompt template to arrive at the Storyform Builder settings. For a chat in Narrova vs Subtxt vs ??

I want to use Storyform Builder to generate a complete storyform for each POV character in a Cozy Mystery Series. I will onboard a new MC as another concludes their arc over 4 books (the ideal reader likes a slowburn)

They are all engaged in solving a mystery, but each has a separate emotional wound arc. (Think Thursday Murder Club / Only Murders in the Building but w/ GenX & older millennials).

This is more of a series engine rather than a series arc with an endpoint. So the series won’t have a storyform. Its a case-of-the-week without a mythos arc.

I will have the MC’s Emotional Wound Arc output from a Claude Project ready to input into the Dramatica prompt template.

The rest of the murder club characters serve as the Impact / Obstacle Character.

There will only be one MC per book, so I would use the same character onboarding prompt template to create a new POV Character storyform as needed.

How might this work to arrive at a complete storyform efficiently?

Thanks!

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I would just upload your docs from Claude into Narrova, set the Focus to Storyforming, and then put in all that you have above starting with "I want to use Storyform Builder to "

There are all kinds of efficiencies and intelligence already built into the entire system of narrative intelligence that is Narrova–just tap into it and let your intuition guide your responses.

To be super honest, if you really want a great reading I’d set the Intelligence level to High, especially since you’re doing a lot of complex and elaborate storyforming. It will burn through tokens faster BUT the response will be 1.5-1.8x better.

I have it currently set to Medium as the default because I’m trying to make all this work accessible to more writers, but High is really much better.

You’ll just have to experiment to see what works best for you.

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Thanks for the advice regarding the settings!

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