Glossary
AI writing & story-craft glossary
The vocabulary behind coherent long-form writing, defined plainly.
- AI slop
- Antagonist
- Authorial voice
- Beat sheet
- Character arc
- Character engine
- Cliffhanger
- Climax
- Continuity
- Developmental editing
- Exposition
- Flashback
- Foil
- Foreshadowing
- Inciting incident
- Line editing
- Motif
- Narrative framework
- Narrative tension
- Pacing
- Plot archetype
- Plot twist
- Point of view
- Protagonist
- Show, don't tell
- Story bible
- Subplot
- Theme
- Three-act structure
- Unreliable narrator
- Voice drift