OpenWriterControle/novel/templates/DATA/plot.md
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feat(novel): DATA/plot.md - the story baseline (main line + side-story register)
The pack had a premise (a few sentences), per-book summaries and a weekly timeline,
but no single spine saying what the main line is and which threads are side stories.

plot.md is the one prose file in DATA/: the author's telling, split into backbone
beats, an explicit side-story register, the verbatim transcription (spoken tellings
are expected - dictating into a note app is often the easiest way to produce a
baseline), deviations once the novel departs from it, and open threads.

The hierarchy is written into the file so it cannot drift: plot.md is INTENT, the
manuscript is REALISED, the wiki is DETAIL; on conflict the agent reports instead of
silently picking. Side stories are first-class - an unregistered thread is invisible
to the agent.

Wired in: SCHEMA (tree, naming table, new 5.4), templates/DATA/plot.md,
OpenNovelAgent load list + read-both-backbone-and-side-stories rule, /init asks for
a spoken telling and scaffolds the file, Importer maps fragments into it,
StoryReviewer measures chapters against it.
2026-10-17 00:05:19 +01:00

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Plot — {{SERIES_TITLE}}

Baseline = the author's telling. This is the main line of the story, not the whole of it: side stories, subplots and new characters are expected — and they MUST be recorded in section 2, or the agent cannot see them.

Hierarchy: this file is intent, the manuscript is realised, the wiki is detail. Where they disagree, report it and let the author rule — never silently pick one.

1. Backbone — what must happen

Book 1 — {{BOOK_1_TITLE}}

  1. {{BEAT}}
  2. {{BEAT}}

Book 2 — {{BOOK_2_TITLE}}

  1. {{BEAT}}

2. Side stories (register)

thread whose story spans status
{{THREAD}} {{CHARACTER}} book 1 planned

Status values: idea → planned → placed (a chapter is assigned) → written.

3. Baseline telling (verbatim, dated)

{{DATE}} — first telling

{{Paste the transcription here, exactly as it came. Do not tidy it.}}

4. Deviations — where the written novel left the baseline

chapter baseline said novel does ruling

5. Open threads / unresolved questions

  • {{QUESTION}}