Journal

Journal

Notes on memory, word balance, and writing after dark.

Writing

Put the facts in the memory library

A character can carry what you write down. The lines you need later still belong in the library.

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Words

Words are bought outright. No monthly fee

Writing spends words in this order: daily free, rewards, gifts, then purchases.

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Character

Write the character before the plot

Relationship, voice, limits, and the first line beat a pile of adjectives.

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Memory

Lines you must keep go in the library

Chat is pushed aside by newer lines. Names, relationships, and limits need their own place.

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Character

Write behavior, not empty adjectives

“Gentle” and “cold” need the thing they actually do. Then the character stays put.

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Writing

A scene is sentences, not a list of adjectives

Place, distance, one object. Keep only the features later lines will name.

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Memory

How the library enters the next chapter

Settings are carried into generation. Saying it again in chat is not the same as storing it.

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Writing

More than one person in the scene

Use names as subjects. Write where everyone is, and who has met whom.

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Chapters

A long story: chapters, words, rewrite

No chapter cap. Words are spent as daily free, rewards, gifts, then purchases.

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Chapters

Before a long story, settle these

Whether the old setting remains, whether the balance is enough, and how a mistake is fixed.

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Writing

Before you start, write the relationship you want

Relationship, limits, one scene. Plot comes after those three.

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Generation

Cut off mid-sentence, or another language appears

A reply has a length limit. A long library and a crowded sentence get squeezed.

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Memory

A name is misspelled, or they use the wrong one for you

Rare characters drift. Put the full name in the library. Rewrite the chapter that got it wrong.

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Scenes

Start from one scene

Rain, a hall, a last train, snow, a mask. Pick the night, then the past.

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Product

Lustra is for writing a story, not a monthly chat plan

Words are bought outright. Library, chapters, branches, and rewrite sit on the same story.

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Character

Six parts of a character sheet

Look, temperament, speech, past, the relationship with you, and the world. Short lines. No contradictions.

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Public

Read it once before you make it public

Subjects, contradictions, age, and whether you have the right to the words and images.

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Branch

Keep the other ending as a branch

Any chapter can branch. The old line stays. You do not delete it to try an ending.

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Public

The first paragraph of a public story has to hold

A specific relationship, one limit, one unfinished sentence. Empty tags do nothing.

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Branch

How to open a branch

Your own story splits when you want. Someone else’s story needs the author to accept it before a reward is in question.

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