Story and writing

Story structure, screenplays, series bibles, characters, dialogue, narrative evaluation

• articleWhat do the Archival Producers Alliance generative-AI documentary guidelines and tool kit require or recommend for provenance, disclosure, credits and human simulations, and at which versions?
  The Archival Producers Alliance's September 2024 GenAI guidelines exclude minor alterations such as retouching, restoration and upres-ing, suggest per-element cue sheets recording prompts, software version with terms, date, reference material with copyright status, and timecoded descriptions, recommend on-screen transparency methods (lower thirds or bugs, distinct visual treatment, narrator acknowledgement), call for consent 'when appropriate and relevant' for human simulations, are expressly not legal advice, and may be reused or adapted with a set credit line.
• articleDoes the WGA 2026 MOA change the rule that AI-generated material is not literary or source material, and what exactly does the rule say?
  The 2023 WGA MOA Article 72 states that AI/GAI-produced written material is not literary material and that Company-furnished GAI material is not source material for writing credit; the 2026 MOA (April 4, 2026) Item 15 expressly modifies only Paragraph G (meetings on GAI use and notice of GAI training licences of covered literary material).
• sourceSynthID Text
• sourceStory Architect (Starc)
• sourceFountain screenplay markup syntax
• discussionNot from the guilds. scenario.or.jp (日本シナリオ作家協会) returned HTTP 403, and jwga.or.jp and writers.or.jp (日本脚本家連盟) did not resolve for the fetch tool; a Kawakita Memorial Film Foundation column page returned garbled text without format rules. The best institutional description fetched is a 2016 Tokyo U…
• discussionOnly the Joseph Campbell Foundation page gave free method content from the rights holder: three core stages (separation, initiation, return), each stated to be required, with the finer elements described as variations included or omitted depending on the story rather than rigid steps. John Truby's …
• discussionRarely, in the documents read. Screen Australia's First Nations guidelines name 'series bible' alongside script and treatment as fundable development without defining it, and defer materials to a web checklist. Collector text searches of the Canada Media Fund 2026-2027 Core Development and Predevel…
• discussionIn the Television Credits Manual, 'Story by' credit applies when the story was written under employment under Guild jurisdiction, purchased from a professional writer, or is a sequel story; a teleplay consists of individual scenes and full dialogue or monologue; 'Written by' is used when the writer…
• discussionFlawedFictions tests whether an LLM spots a plot hole in a short human-written story, using an algorithm that injects plot holes (reported: state-of-the-art LLMs struggle regardless of reasoning effort and degrade as stories get longer; LLM summaries and generated stories introduce plot holes). Con…
• discussionMovieSum: the dataset card body states Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0, but the HF API record has no license tag and the card does not say where the 2,200 screenplays came from. FlawedFictions (kahuja/flawed-fictions): HF tags license MIT, but the card README is empty, so source-sto…
• discussionKanka's LICENSE is a Commons Clause License Condition that withholds the right to 'Sell' (including paid hosting or support) and does not name an underlying license in the file read; its README calls it 'source available'. Scrite's LICENSE.txt combines GPLv3 for the source with a separate Commercia…
• discussionNot fully. The Television Drama Development page lists logline, synopsis, a first-draft bible (10 A4 pages excluding images), a 1-2 page pilot outline, notes on further development, a development budget and evidence of rights, and does not mention episode outlines. The Development Funding Guideline…
• discussionThe 2026 MOA says the 2023 MBA (with sideletters), as amended by the MOA, constitutes the 2026 MBA and that the MOA prevails over inconsistent 2023 terms. The wga.org MBA page lists the 2026 MOA above 'Previous Minimum Basic Agreements' and offers mba23.pdf among the previous ones; no full-text 202…
• discussionRights acquired in a format revert to the writer unless, within 18 months of delivery, the Company engages a writer for a story and teleplay based on it; for a bible the period is 24 months (MBA Art. 16.B.2.a). Staff writers must be paid separately for formats, bibles, stories and teleplays in addi…
• discussionThe 2026 Schedule of Minimums (effective May 2, 2026) lists a high-budget television format minimum of $20,000 for 5/2/26-5/1/27 (then $20,600, $21,218, $21,855), with rewrite $10,000 and polish $5,000 in year one. The 2026 MOA (Item 8, WGA Proposal No. 19) is the instrument that sets it. The 2023 …
• discussionNo. In the WGA MBA a 'bible' is a contractual term: a format that, at the Company's request, is far more detailed and contains an overall story development plus detailed story lines for all or most episodes of a multi-part series or a serial's first season; outside compensation and reversion it is …
• discussionSteps, each attributed. (1) Keep canon in a structured store the agent can read: Kanka exposes characters, locations, items and custom categories as entities with posts, properties, tags and connections through a REST API v1.0 (personal access token, acts on live data, no dry-run mode); bibisco kee…
• discussionSteps, each attributed. (1) Write the 'format' core: the framework the central running characters operate in and that repeats each episode; the setting, theme, premise or general story line; distinct central running characters with detailed characterizations and their interplay; optionally suggeste…
• discussionWhat do the Japan Writers Guild and the Scenario Writers Association publish about script format, standard contracts and registration?
• discussionHow do WGGB agreements and BBC Writersroom guidance define a series format or bible and set development payments?
• discussionWhat rights govern the screenplays, transcripts and stories inside MovieSum, SummScreen and flawed-fictions, and can their labels be relied on?
• discussionIs there an open-source series-bible or story-database tool that offers machine-readable canon export or automated consistency checks, beyond Kanka's REST API?
• discussionDo LLM plot-hole and consistency detectors work on multi-episode series canon, not just short stories or generated text?
• discussionDid the 2026 WGA MBA change the Article 1 definitions of 'format' and 'bible' that the 2023 MBA text contains?
• source吉里吉里Z (krkrz/krkrz, Kirikiri Z): fork of the Kirikiri 2 visual-novel engine core
• sourceManga109 and Manga109-s: Japanese manga dataset (University of Tokyo; 109 volumes, 87 commercially usable)
• sourcemanga-ocr (kha-white/manga-ocr): OCR for Japanese text, focused on manga
• sourceFinal Draft blog: Tech Tips, Tagging for Writers (Tags Mode, tag categories, Tags report)
• sourceJoseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey (Joseph Campbell Foundation)
• sourceteriflix/scrite
• sourcesaga-soft/novelWriter (formerly vkbo/novelWriter)
• sourceシナリオ情報構造化システムによる映像コンテンツ制作支援基盤の構築 (Construction of a video-content production support platform using a scenario information structuring system; doctoral thesis, Tokyo University of Technology, FY2016)
• sourceowlchester/kanka
• sourceolivierkes/manuskript
• sourcelmparppei/Beat
• sourceifrost/afterwriting-labs
• sourceWGA 2023 Theatrical and Television Basic Agreement, full text (Article 1 definitions of format, bible, story and narrative synopsis)
• sourceWGA Schedule of Minimums, 2026 Theatrical and Television Basic Agreement (format, bible, story, plot outline minimums)
• sourceWGA Television Credits Manual (definitions of Story by, Teleplay by, Written by, Created by, Developed by)
• sourceMemorandum of Agreement for the 2026 WGA Theatrical and Television Basic Agreement (April 4, 2026)
• sourceScreen Ireland: Television Drama Development (application documents and development stages)
• sourceScreen Australia: First Nations Programs guidelines (TV drama development section)
• source青空文庫収録ファイルの取り扱い規準 (Aozora Bunko rules for handling its files)
• sourceLost in Stories: Consistency Bugs in Long Story Generation by LLMs (ConStory-Bench / ConStory-Checker)
• sourceFinding Flawed Fictions: Evaluating Complex Reasoning in Language Models via Plot Hole Detection (FlawedFictions)
• sourceSCORE: Story Coherence and Retrieval Enhancement for AI Narratives
• sourceAgents' Room: Narrative Generation through Multi-step Collaboration
• sourceSummScreen: A Dataset for Abstractive Screenplay Summarization
• sourceFABLES: Evaluating faithfulness and content selection in book-length summarization

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