| I think that humans do executive decision making better than LLMs. So, yeah, your "Meeting a dragon" story was about a single point - an attempt at a humourous twist ending; you built your story around that. My approach would be having the Dragon in the title be a metaphor, for something powerful, dangerous and scary: 1. Comedy: new g/friend meeting MiL (the Dragon) for the first time 2. Thriller: guy finds out what his wife (The Dragon) really is like, basically the plot to Gone Girl 3. Drama: An alcoholic anthopormorphising the addiction (The Dragon) as an uncontrollable beast within himself 4. Historical: An author examining the events of the Tuskagee Syphilis experiment in the legislated-racism (The Dragon) period of the time. 5. SciFi: "The Dragon is a Harsh Mistress" (enough said) 6. Action: The dragon is a legendary elder of a mystical martial arts sect ("Enter the Dragon" stuff) 7. Fantasy: An actual, literal Dragon! This is before I've considered a single line of plot, a single character, or character motivation. It's before I considered tone and presentation (Narrative? First-person narration? Dialog-driven narration?) I mean, before getting to actual plot, characters, setting, tone, etc ... I've already got my message figured out. That's executive decision making. The LLM will not, when given the directive "Write the story 'Meeting the Dragon'" perform any executive decision making. You have to baby it through every step. Basically micromanage it. |