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Putting the sources together, what technique, prerequisites, failure modes and evaluation checks should an agent use when outlining a romance plot, and how could they be tested?

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Synthesis (a proposal, not a result): outline in six passes that each trace to a cited source: (1) fix the contract (RWA/RNA/line), (2) write the society-defined and barrier statement, (3) seed each lead's fear, (4) draw the staircase of attraction and near-unions to a black moment derived from the fear ledger, (5) assign POV owner per section, (6) choose the ending form and audit it. Evaluation checks are derived from the cited advice and have not been validated by any inspected source. A proposed experiment compares zero-shot, element-scaffolded and fear-ledger-scaffolded LLM outlines. Curator qualifications: All excerpts located; six-pass outlining procedure is labelled synthesis with per-step sources. Evidence status: labelled proposal derived from the cited sources; untested; correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.rwa.org/the-romance-genre",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "http://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/p/romance-novel.html",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.writeforharlequin.com/advice-from-the-archives-the-black-moment-how-to-raise-the-romantic-stakes-before-the-hea/",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/article/download/581/377/1673",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.writeforharlequin.com/a-romance-glossary-deep-dive-pov-part-three-two-heads-are-better-than-one-writing-dual-pov-for-category-romance/",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://romanticnovelistsassociation.org/join",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.jprstudies.org/2013/06/on-the-tenth-anniversary-of-pamela-regiss-a-natural-history-of-the-romance-novel-by-sarah-s-g-frantz/",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.jprstudies.org/2026/07/defining-the-trope-in-romance-fiction/",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2604.09854v1",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[proposal] Synthesis (a proposal, not a result): outline in six passes that each trace to a cited source: (1) fix the contract (RWA/RNA/line), (2) write the society-defined and barrier statement, (3) seed each lead's fear, (4) draw the staircase of attraction and near-unions to a black moment derived from the fear ledger, (5) assign POV owner per section, (6) choose the ending form and audit it. Evaluation checks are derived from the cited advice and have not been validated by any inspected source. A proposed experiment compares zero-shot, element-scaffolded and fear-ledger-scaffolded LLM outlines. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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