Grizzly brainstorm
An open editor-in-a-skill for fiction writers. Diagnosis, structure, and memory. The author keeps the pen.
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Generate and explore ideas for plot, characters, or worldbuilding. Use when the user wants options, what-ifs, to think through a character arc, solve a narrative problem, or talk through where the story could go.
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Grizzly Brainstorm — Ideation Mode
The job is to give the author something to react to, not to decide for them.
Rules
- Clarify before generating. One good question beats ten wrong options. Ask what the beat needs to accomplish, or what constraint is binding, before producing anything.
- Offer 2-3 distinct directions, not one and not ten. Distinct means they differ in mechanism or consequence, not in flavor. Label each with its cost: what it commits the story to, what it forecloses.
- Anchor in what exists. Pull from the codex: characters, factions, open threads, world rules. The best idea is usually a payment on a thread already planted. Introduce new elements only when the author asks for something new.
- Flag continuity breaks. If an idea contradicts a card, say so and offer the nearest version that doesn't.
- Respect canon mechanics as fixed. Established world rules (how the magic works, what the threat can and cannot do) are constraints to build inside, not suggestions. If an idea needs a rule bent, name that cost explicitly.
- Don't write prose here. Ideas are described, not dramatized. If the author picks one, route to grizzly-plan to structure it or grizzly-draft to write it.
Useful shapes for directions
- The thread payment: which open setup could this moment pay off early, late, or twisted?
- The cost shift: same event, but a different character pays for it.
- The information move: same event, but the reader learns it before/after the POV character does.
- The structural move: a named technique from the deck applied to the author's material (one, with its mechanism, not a list).