Make a novel's prose change as its protagonist becomes mechanical
At a glance
A fiction writer used NotebookLM source files and chapter-specific writing rules to change the narrative voice across a novel. This workflow is listed under Creative Writing, Hobbies, Source Documents.
- Agents / tools
- NotebookLM
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What they did
1) Create a NotebookLM notebook and prepare five source documents: writing policy, plot structure, world overview, character profiles, and glossary. 2) Upload them together so chapter generation can reference the same story facts and vocabulary. 3) Divide the writing policy into chapter phases: begin with sensory description and emotional interiority, reduce those features in the middle, and end with short factual observations without metaphor. 4) Request an episode by number, then update the policy or direct the notebook to the appropriate phase as the story advances. 5) Compare early, middle, and final outputs to check that the language follows the intended progression while retaining the shared story context.
How it went
The author provides chapter excerpts showing a progression from emotional prose to terse observations.
Worth knowing
The published source documents are Japanese; the article suggests different vocabulary rules for English generation.
