Glossary
The substrate — canonical definitions for the whole library.
Clusters
Technology terms
LLM, context window, RAG, fine-tuning, embedding, temperature, top-p, system prompt, agent, tool use, prompt chaining, hallucination, multimodal, vision model, speech synthesis.
Fiction craft terms
Story arc, chapter, vignette, worldbuilding, protagonist, antagonist, archetype, narrative structure, three-act, kishōtenketsu, cliffhanger, MacGuffin, exposition, show don't tell, interior monologue, unreliable narrator.
Industry terms
AI publisher, generative fiction platform, credit pack, subscription credit, rollover credit, audience of one, evergreen series, generative narrative, machine-authored fiction, editorial AI, humanizing pass.
Concepts unique to AI fiction
Audience of one, evergreen series, generative cliffhanger, banned-word list, AI tell, model-authored prose, fictional-disambiguation schema, the publisher-as-author position.
Reader-experience terms
Parasocial bond, binge-reading, escapism, immersion, transmedia, fandom, headcanon, AU (alternate universe), shipping.
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