The different kinds of Story Beats to fit your style: Plotter or Pantser
Summary
TLDRLa vidéo 'Novel Crafter' explique comment écrire des 'beats', des unités de structure narratives essentielles pour faire avancer l'histoire. Originaires de l'industrie du scénario, les beats peuvent inclure des actions, événements, changements émotionnels ou conversations. Le tutoriel guide les utilisateurs à travers différentes techniques de beats, depuis les 'simple beats' pour encourager la créativité de l'IA jusqu'aux 'beats guidés' pour suivre une vision narrative précise. Elle propose également des astuces pour résoudre les problèmes courants et suggère d'utiliser des entrées de codex pour influencer l'écriture de l'IA. Le but est d'aider les écrivains à utiliser l'IA comme un partenaire, en apprenant à lui donner des instructions claires pour obtenir le résultat souhaité.
Takeaways
- 📚 Les 'beats' sont les unités de structure les plus petites dans une histoire qui permettent d'avancer le récit.
- 🎬 Les beats viennent de l'industrie du scénario et peuvent inclure des actions, des événements, des changements émotionnels ou des conversations.
- 📈 Un roman est composé d'actes, de chapitres, de scènes et de beats qui aident à structurer l'histoire.
- 🤖 L'utilisation de beats avec l'IA est issue des premiers modèles de grande taille qui avaient des fenêtres de contexte limitées.
- 🚀 Les contextes de fenêtres sont aujourd'hui plus grands, mais ils ne sont pas encore fiables pour écrire un chapitre entier ou un livre.
- 👩🎨 Les beats servent à instruire l'IA et montrent comment la scène devra évoluer.
- 🔍 Il n'y a pas de formule idéale pour écrire des beats, il est suggéré d'essayer différentes méthodes et de trouver le flux de travail qui fonctionne le mieux.
- 💡 Les 'simple beats' sont pour donner à l'IA le plus de créativité, tandis que les 'detailed beats' sont pour des scènes précises.
- 📝 Les 'micro beats' sont utiles pour ajouter des détails mineurs pendant le processus d'édition.
- 📍 Les 'guided beats' garantissent que l'IA suive la vision de l'auteur, comme les 'time/location beats' pour établir la scène initiale.
- ✍️ Les 'dialogue beats' et les 'instruction beats' sont utilisés pour contrôler les conversations et les actions des personnages.
- 🔧 En cas de problèmes, il est possible de dépanner en utilisant des instructions entre crochets pour arrêter l'IA à un point spécifique.
- 🧐 Pour éviter que de nouveaux personnages ne soient créés de manière arbitraire, il est important de spécifier les personnages impliqués dans les beats.
- 📉 Si l'IA résume les beats au lieu de fournir des dialogues, il peut être utile d'utiliser des 'dialogue beats' ou des 'instruction beats'.
- 🧑🤝🧑 Utiliser des noms au lieu de pronoms aide l'IA à comprendre qui fait quoi, surtout lorsqu'il y a plusieurs personnages du même genre.
- 🔗 Les entrées de codex sont essentielles pour influencer l'écriture de l'IA et assurer la cohérence de l'histoire.
- 🌟 Les entrées globales de codex sont un excellent moyen d'influencer l'écriture de l'IA sans avoir besoin de répéter les informations à chaque fois.
Q & A
Qu'est-ce qu'une 'beat' dans le contexte de l'écriture de récits?
-Dans le contexte de l'écriture de récits, une 'beat' est la plus petite unité de structure qui pousse l'intrigue en avant. Elle peut inclure des actions, des événements, des changements émotionnels ou une conversation.
D'où viennent les 'beats' et comment sont-ils liés à l'écriture avec l'IA?
-Les 'beats' ont leurs origines dans l'industrie du scénario, et leur utilisation dans l'écriture avec l'IA remonte aux premières versions des grands modèles de langage, qui avaient des fenêtres de contexte limitées. Les 'beats' sont utilisés pour guider l'IA et lui donner des instructions sur la progression de la scène.
Comment les 'beats' peuvent-ils améliorer l'écriture d'un roman?
-Les 'beats' divisent un chapitre en unités plus petites avec un début, un milieu et une fin, et un objectif spécifique pour les personnages. Cela permet d'avoir un arc pour chaque chapitre et d'atteindre les objectifs de l'histoire.
Quels sont les différents types de 'beats' mentionnés dans le script?
-Le script mentionne plusieurs types de 'beats', notamment les 'simple beats' pour encourager la créativité de l'IA, les 'detailed beats' pour des scènes précises, les 'micro beats' pour ajouter des détails mineurs, les 'guided beats' pour suivre votre vision, et les 'dialogue beats' pour les conversations.
Comment les 'beats' peuvent-ils être utilisés pour résoudre les problèmes courants lors de l'écriture avec l'IA?
-Les 'beats' peuvent être utilisés pour corriger des problèmes tels que l'IA qui écrit au-delà de la portée des 'beats', l'introduction de nouveaux personnages non désirés, la summarisation des 'beats' au lieu de fournir du dialogue, et les personnages qui ne correspondent pas à ceux prévus.
Quels conseils sont donnés pour utiliser efficacement les 'beats' avec l'IA?
-Les conseils incluent l'utilisation de noms au lieu de pronoms pour éviter la confusion, la modification des instructions pour manipuler la prose, la réduction de la sortie de mots ou de jetons si l'IA écrit trop, et l'édition des 'beats' en cours de route pour améliorer la cohérence.
Comment les entrées du codex (codex entries) peuvent-elles influencer l'écriture de l'IA?
-Les entrées du codex fournissent des informations contextuelles à l'IA, telles que les descriptions des personnages, des lieux et des éléments de l'intrigue. Elles sont essentielles pour obtenir une prose cohérente et pertinente.
Quels sont les avantages de commencer un chapitre soi-même dans le contexte de l'utilisation de l'IA?
-Commencer un chapitre soi-même permet à l'IA de lire les mots que vous avez écrits et de s'efforcer de les imiter, améliorant ainsi la continuité de l'histoire.
Que sont les 'system prompts' et comment fonctionnent-ils avec les 'beats'?
-Les 'system prompts' sont des modèles prédéfinis qui incluent des paramètres testés par la communauté. Ils sont utilisés en conjonction avec les 'beats' pour guider l'IA et obtenir la prose souhaitée.
Comment l'IA peut-elle apprendre et s'adapter à vos habitudes d'écriture au fur et à mesure de la progression du chapitre?
-En éditant la sortie de l'IA au fur et à mesure, l'IA peut apprendre et s'adapter à votre style d'écriture, mimant ainsi vos bonnes pratiques.
Quels sont les différents niveaux de contrôle que les écrivains peuvent avoir sur l'IA en utilisant les 'beats'?
-Les écrivains peuvent choisir entre différents types de 'beats' pour contrôler la quantité de liberté donnée à l'IA, allant de la plus grande liberté avec les 'simple beats' à un contrôle plus serré avec les 'detailed beats' et les 'instruction beats'.
Quels sont les éléments clés à inclure dans les entrées du codex pour une meilleure cohérence de l'écriture de l'IA?
-Les entrées du codex doivent être concises et contenir toutes les données pertinentes, y compris les descriptions des personnages, des lieux, des éléments de l'intrigue et les mots-clés du genre pour influencer la prose générée par l'IA.
Outlines
📚 Introduction à l'écriture de beats
Le premier paragraphe explique l'importance des 'beats' dans l'écriture, qu'ils soient utilisés avec ou sans l'aide de l'IA. Les beats sont des éléments de structure qui permettent de faire avancer l'intrigue d'une histoire. Ils peuvent inclure des actions, des événements, des changements émotionnels ou des conversations. Les auteurs peuvent utiliser les beats pour structurer leurs chapitres et guider l'IA dans la progression des scènes. L'IA, en effet, nécessite des instructions claires pour comprendre et suivre la vision de l'auteur.
🎨 Utilisation des beats avec l'IA
Le deuxième paragraphe traite de l'utilisation des beats dans le contexte de l'écriture assistée par l'IA. Il décrit différents types de beats, tels que les beats simples pour encourager la créativité de l'IA, les beats détaillés pour des scènes précises, les micro-beats pour ajouter des détails pendant la révision, et les beats guidés pour suivre fidèlement la vision de l'auteur. Le paragraphe explique également comment l'IA peut être influencée par les entrées du codex et comment les beats peuvent être ajustés pour obtenir les résultats souhaités.
🛠 Dépannage des beats
Le troisième paragraphe se concentre sur les solutions à appliquer si l'IA ne suit pas les beats comme prévu. Il suggère des méthodes pour éviter que l'IA ne crée des personnages inattendus, ne s'éloigne du sujet ou ne produise des dialogues inappropriés. Des conseils sont donnés pour améliorer la précision des beats, comme l'utilisation de noms au lieu de pronoms, la modification des instructions et la manipulation de la sortie de l'IA.
📝 Conseils pour utiliser efficacement les beats
Le quatrième paragraphe fournit des conseils pour maximiser l'efficacité des beats lorsqu'ils sont utilisés avec l'IA. Il met en évidence l'importance des entrées du codex, la façon de structurer les beats pour différents types de scènes et l'influence des paramètres de l'IA sur la qualité du texte généré. Le paragraphe conclut en remerciant les téléspectateurs et en invitant à poser des questions ou à rejoindre la communauté Discord pour obtenir de l'aide.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Beats
💡AI
💡Story Arc
💡Token Limit
💡Simple Beats
💡Detailed Beats
💡Micro Beats
💡Guided Beats
💡Dialogue Beats
💡Instruction Beats
💡Codex Entries
Highlights
Story beats are the smallest unit of structure in a story that pushes the narrative forward, including actions, events, emotional shifts, or conversations.
Novels are comprised of acts, chapters, scenes, and beats, with each chapter having its own arc and specific goals for characters.
Beats serve as instructions to guide the scene's progression, beneficial when writing with AI due to the large language models' limited context windows.
Even with a large context window, AI might add its own flair or misinterpret inputs, necessitating clear beat instructions.
Writing with AI is likened to being a film director, requiring clear communication of the desired narrative image.
Beats can range from simple, allowing AI the most creativity, to detailed, providing a clearer structure for the scene.
Simple beats are useful for prompting AI in conversations where the topic is known, but the specifics are not.
Detailed beats are ideal for scenes where the writer has a clear vision but needs assistance with phrasing.
Micro beats are used for adding small details during the editing process or correcting specific sentences.
Guided beats ensure the AI follows the writer's vision closely, especially useful for setting up scenes or character interactions.
Time/location beats are effective for establishing the scene's setting or when there's a change in location and time.
Dialogue beats are used when the writer knows the conversation's direction but not the detailed actions or thoughts.
Instruction beats provide clear directives to the AI, useful for controlling the narrative without dictating specific interactions.
Troubleshooting tips include using bracketed instructions to prevent the AI from writing beyond the scope of the beats.
To avoid the AI inventing new characters, ensure the beats specify the characters involved, guiding the AI's narrative choices.
If the AI summarizes the beats without dialogue, using dialogue beats or instruction beats can help to achieve the desired output.
Characterization issues can be addressed by using codex entries to clearly define character traits and motivations.
Editing system prompts and adjusting word or token output can help refine the AI's writing to better match the writer's intent.
Using names instead of pronouns in beats can improve clarity and ensure the AI correctly infers character interactions.
Different AI models have varying strengths; some may follow instructions closely, while others may offer more creative prose.
Combining beat structures within a chapter allows for a mix of controlled dialogue and freer action or fight scenes.
Novel Crafter's system prompt reads from previously written words, aiding in continuity and matching the writer's style.
Codex entries are crucial for providing the AI with relevant data, influencing the writing to be more cohesive and consistent.
Global codex entries can influence the AI's writing by including genre keywords and other contextual information.
Transcripts
hi and welcome to this novel crafter
video on how to write beats you may have
heard this term bandied around a lot in
the AI sphere both regarding super
prompts and in writing beat by beat
however they're not A New Concept and
have their origins in the screenwriting
industry to put it simply story beats
are the smallest unit of structure in a
story that pushes The Narrative forward
they could include actions events
emotional shifts or a conversation you
do not need to be writing with AI in
order to use story beats to improve your
writing a novel comprises of Acts
chapters scenes and beats just like how
chapters break down a story into
manageable chunks beats break down a
chapter each chapter within a novel
should have its own arc albeit a minor
one with a start middle and end and a
specific goal for your characters once
you know what you want to happen in the
chapter you can then work on how best to
accomplish those goals beats are
instructions that show others as a
writer and by extension the AI how the
scene will
progress but why do we use beats when
writing with
AI this originates from the days of old
you know two years ago where large
language models first became available
to the public these initial models had
really not great context Windows like
4,000 tokens and so it wasn't really
possible to input all the information
that you would need for a chapter in one
prompt of course now we get context
Windows of up to 200,000 tokens but they
are not yet reliable for writing an
entire chapter or book using simple
prompting just because an AI can read
your entire book doesn't mean it can do
it well even with precise instructions
AI can often add its own flare or
misinterpret what you have input
furthermore if you're a paner style
writer or the complete opposite you like
having a really really like fine control
of your story you might not want to plan
out an entire chapter and have it
written in one go think of writing with
AI as akin to being a film director you
have an image in your head and you want
to convey that because AI models cannot
read minds in order for you to get the
image that you want down onto paper we
need to provide
instructions treat AI as you would treat
a writing partner they don't know what
you want unless you tell it what you
want this may be a new skill to learn
but it is valuable don't be disheartened
if your initial attempts don't give you
the pros you want by working iteratively
and making slight adjustments each time
you go you'll really get the feel of how
these work okay so how do we actually
write the beats the short answer is that
there's no specific like ideal for this
however this class is going to go into
the various ways that our users have
found to work for them we suggest that
you play around with all of these or
even use them in conjunct function with
one another in order to find a workflow
that works best for you for this
tutorial we will look at some well-known
scenes from bal's The Wonderful Wizard
of Oz okay let's jump into novel
crafter so the easiest way to think of
Beats is as a summary for the next
passage of text akin to how we summarize
a chapter before writing it this type of
beat only contains General directions
and not the tiny specifics the easiest
one to grasp the concept of is simple
Beats for when you want to give the AI
the most creativity in writing for
example you've got two characters and
they're talking and you know they're
going to talk about topic a for example
I don't know how to peel a banana but
you're not entirely sure how this
conversation is going to go and you
don't really want to have to think about
it you know this is a great way to
prompt a simple conversation for this
example we're going to see Uncle Henry
is watching the weather outside and
spots a cyclone he orders Dorothy and
Aunt M
inside um here I'm I'm going to use the
general purpose prompt and um let's give
mral medium a
spin so as you can see here it's very
much going into detail um not only of
Uncle Henry but also the other
characters um because the story is in
third person omniscient in the actual
story this is all like two sentences
however the AI is taking this really
simple prompt and and going crazy like
look at this it it goes on forever so
using a simple beat is a great way of
encouraging creativity however if you
want something a little more guided then
a detailed beat might be for you these
are great for if you have a clear idea
of how you want your scene to go but are
unsure how to phrase the exact Pros
yourself very close to the original Pros
saying Dorothy retrieves Toto heads to
follow you know it's step by step and
you could you know describe a
conversation this way okay so you can
see here that it's still embellishing
but it's sticking much closer to what
we've said there are two paragraphs on
Dorothy retrieving Toto to be fair it
keeps going on yeah so I mean here we
can see that whilst it sticks a lot
closer to our instructions there is
still creativity and it's it's making a
com you know a
considerable chunk of writing from this
you can always turn the temperature down
as well if you want your Pros to stick
more closely to the Beats using a
detailed beat is a great way of just
kick starting the
creativity micro beats these are great
if you want to add a tiny bit of detail
to your novel whilst in the editing
process or you've missed something out
or there's just like one sentence or
paragraph that isn't quite right from
your your whole Pros generation with
these I like to limit the AI token limit
or press apply very quickly as AI models
can still kind of go on and on and on so
I'm going to pause there you can see
that you have got the Scarecrow Des uh
description here so it's giving what you
want we'll go into detail in another
lesson on how to actually change the
token output however if you're curious
you can do it down here in the prompt
section guided beats whereas summary
beats still give the AI some Freedom
around your instructions guided beats
are there to make sure your digital
intern actually follows your vision the
first one I want to show you is time/
location Beats I like to use these when
setting up the initial scene or if
there's a change of location and time if
you have codex entries for your
locations this is where mentioning them
will allow your Pros to shine so for
example if I had um a codex
entry
for Dorothy's house I put a
quaint uh Southern American
Vibes um Blue Roof
okay let's give it a
wh okay we have Dorothy waking up
somewhere a little bit
unfamiliar it's describe the house you
can see the Blue Roof here if you had a
more fleshed out description of the
location you'd see how it really would
push the narrative and save you having
to kind of ensure that everything is
consistent um or that you're remembering
everything
correctly next up is dialogue Beats if
you know how a conversation is going to
go but you don't want to have to write
down all the little bits of action and
thoughts in between each beat then this
is the way to go I like to write these
out in script format because I find it
kind of helps make it clearer in my mind
and you could also add in actions or
anything if you had like a
particular um a particular image in your
head so here we can see that it's added
a lot of creativity around the the text
that we've put um it's still you know
it's very different to the original and
obviously because I've just put female
it doesn't know that this is the Witch
of the the Good Witch of the North
however it's taken it and is is pushing
through and writing you know some not
bad Pros likewise we can take this
premise and do instruction Beats by
telling the AI what to write in a kind
of mini report it's giving clear
instructions and trying to like remove
that ambiguity that occurs cuz sometimes
I don't know if you find this but
sometimes the AI will start to write
after a beat has ended and it'll
continue on and you're like no I wanted
the bit that actually in the beat okay
so we can see here that we've got
Dorothy making some food and we can see
her talking to the dog which is
basically what I instructed however you
can see that things have started to kind
of um continue on the pros hasn't
stopped where we wanted to we can also
make beats the focus on character motiv
motivation if we want the AI to write
character-driven Pros without dictating
the specific
interaction so here we have Dorothy
meeting the Scarecrow they have a
conversation and we know that the
motivations of each character and so
let's see how that then turns out in the
conversation okay so we can see here the
Scarecrow is wanting to remove the stick
in his back and Dorothy wants to go home
and you can see that it is coming it's a
little bit like on the nose but it is
coming through and showing that the the
conversation is happening and you know
but it's not sticking exactly to the
original script it is giving creativity
and you know some good things
here okay so you've done all the work
hit go but it still doesn't seem to want
to work what if I'm not getting the pros
I desire from my Beats let's go over
some brief
troubleshooting the first one that a lot
of users see is the AI continues to
write beyond the scope of my Beats I.E
it just continues writing the story and
often goes off in weird
tangents so a quick fix for this is to
try and use some bracketed instructions
like stop at this point don't go any
further end here Etc in the beat this
has limited um depending on the model
you use either this can work very well
or it gets completely ignored there's
kind of it's kind of an either or
situation so model
dependent that is a quick way to fix it
however this issue often occurs when
you're not specific enough in your Beats
if the AI isn't guided sufficiently um
in what it feels as a beat especially
when it's being told to write x00 amount
of words then it's going to go off the
rails making up new locations and trying
to find a natural way to conclude the
story AI likes to wrap things up in bows
so it's our job as writers to ensure
that it doesn't do that so you can try
lowering the overall word count or you
can give it more information to fill
that word count that we're kind of
prompting it to
do okay so what about if new characters
keep getting invented and just like
pulled out of a hat say we had this and
he this just
said everyone inside there aren't any
codex entries mentioned Uncle Henry
probably probably would come up but then
we might end up with a random sister or
cousin or grandparent that just gets
brought into the narrative however by
saying Dorothy and ANM we're driving the
AI to think okay well these are the
characters we've got and let's use those
before we start adding in mildreds
ETC but what about if the AI is kind of
summarizing the B and not giving you any
um dialogue if it's just telling then we
can try using the dialogue beat if we
know what we want the characters to say
however if you don't know we can also
try using instruction beats show X and Y
having a conversation about Zed a banana
um
example and finally what do we do if the
characterization is all wrong like it's
just making this like generic blond
character and like our main character is
meant to be you know epic so we can
experiment with codex entries if you
want your character to do something
specific mention it in the beat but if
it's a general character trait make sure
it's obvious in the Codex you can always
mention it more than once or just like
prune your entry to ensure that what you
want the AI to write about is actually
included in the Codex entries you can
also try cloning and editing the system
prompt if you're finding issues
continuing so some small changes you can
make include reducing the word or token
output when too much is being written so
if we have here in the instructions it
says to to
write 900 words we could change that to
200 300 if you were wanting to write
short more concise beats we can also
include new instructions to manipulate
the pros however this does work better
when we have models that listen to
instructions more such as gbt 4 Claude
the more expensive ones if anything goes
wrong try the beat with the system
prompt and then work from there here are
some additional tips for getting the
best from your Beats when working with
AI firstly use names instead of pronouns
especially if you have multiple
characters of the same gender the AI
won't always infer correctly who is
saying what and so by using their names
you're guiding it and ensuring that the
AI knows exactly what you're talking
about it's worth bearing in mind that
different AI models have been trained on
different data for different purposes as
such you might find that some are better
at following instruction whereas others
might give lovely Pros but Pros that
veers off your original intent very
quickly the system prompts include
models with settings as tested by the
community so these are a good place to
start however systems such as open routa
offer so many options that you can just
go crazy playing around with it try
combining beat structures within your
chapter you might find that you prefer
to control the dialogue but in an action
or fight scene you want the AI to have a
little more freedom so there's no reason
that you can't like mix and match or
Styles as the chapter
progresses here in novel crafter the
system prompt reads from previously
written
words as you can see yeah by beginning
the chapter yourself the AI reads the
words that you've written and it can
kind of try and match them improving
continuity likewise if you edit the
output Pros as you go the AI kind of
comes to mimic and learn your good
habits as the chapter
progresses okay guys codex entries are
your best friend novel crafter pulls in
information from any mentioned entry in
your beat so keeping these concise and
with all the relevant data is essential
for getting Pros that is relevant and
cohesive and to not have the same
description repeated it over and over
again edit as you go you can change them
chapter by chapter and kind of include
the information that's most relevant for
where you're at
Global codex entries are also a great
way of influencing the writing of AI
instead of having to mention the
relevant data each time you can have
your world building always be in context
this includes keywords for your genre go
here new entry story genre so simple
words like Noir western or
hardboiled science fiction can have a
big influence on the text you're wanting
or if you go for a romantic language you
know you can kind of fine-tuned the
output by kind of giving it
keywords as you can see here it's a
global entry it's always included to
summarize in this lesson we looked at
why we need to use beats when writing
with AI how we can construct those beats
learning techniques that are aligned
with pancers who want more freedom and
plotters that want to be able to control
the output
Pros we also learned how we can begin to
troubleshoot our beats if they're not
giving us the desired pros and finally
some tips and tricks for how to use
novel crafter when writing your Beats
thank you all for watching if you have
any questions about anything that's been
spoken about in this video leave a
comment down below or go onto our
Discord and the community is more than
happy to help you out
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