A curated fiction workbench

Build a story from pressure, choice, and consequence.

Original prompts with enough structure to begin and enough space to make them yours.

Manuscript pages, a pencil, story cards, and a branching map arranged on a dark writing desk

A prompt should create motion.

Each seed begins with a concrete pressure, gives someone a difficult choice, and leaves consequences that can grow beyond the first scene.

Pressure
Something changes and cannot be ignored.
Choice
A character must reveal what matters most.
Consequence
The decision opens a larger human problem.

Three original starting points

Near-future mystery

The Last Public Memory

A municipal archivist finds one childhood memory that belongs to thousands of citizens, though none of them remember donating it.

The pressure: The memory contains evidence of a crime that officially never happened.

Ecological political drama

A Garden That Votes

A neighborhood gives its community garden a legal vote through soil sensors and a public algorithm. Its first decision blocks the housing project everyone expected it to support.

The consequence: Residents must decide whether the garden is a stakeholder or a tool someone has learned to manipulate.

Published foundations

Pipeline-selected foundation

거절이 자정에 효력을 잃는 도시

복지 AI가 내린 거절을 사람이 30일 안에 다시 확인해 이유를 적고 서명하지 않으면, 그 거절은 효력을 잃고 임시 승인으로 바뀐다. 자정까지 7,306건을 살필 수 없는 야간 심사관은 거절을 한꺼번에 연장할지, 예산이 감당하지 못할 임시 지급을 열어 둘지 선택해야 한다.

Pipeline-selected foundation

AI 출시를 멈추는 책임 장부

채용·대출·복지처럼 삶에 직접 영향을 미치는 AI가 작동하기 직전, 기술 성능이 아니라 누가 위험을 승인했고 누가 이의를 받아줄 것인지를 증명해야 한다면 어떨까. 책임자의 이름과 재심 절차가 비어 있는 순간 출시 버튼이 잠기는 가까운 미래를 다룬다.

How a seed earns its place

We select for narrative usefulness, not novelty alone. A strong seed supports several characters, produces disagreement, and survives beyond a single twist.

  1. Find the pressure.Start with a social, technical, or personal change that has a visible cost.
  2. Locate the human choice.Turn the change into a decision that reasonable people can disagree about.
  3. Test the branches.Keep only ideas that can produce more than one plausible future.

Use the premise. Change everything else.

These materials are foundations, not finished plots. Adapt the setting, characters, genre, and outcome to fit the story only you can write.

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