Turn your story idea into a consistent, high-tension draft—without wrestling the AI into shape every chapter.
Why the Narrative Physics Engine?
Most AI story prompts are “shorthand for humans”—but models don’t reason like humans do. They need **explicit systems** and **clear constraints** to stay in genre, stay in character, and keep tension escalating instead of drifting into generic mush.
The Narrative Physics Engine (NPE) is a constraint system that translates your story into “machine-readable” logic:
- Fences make good fiction: constraints create momentum and better choices
- Consistency without micromanaging: the AI tracks character forces, plot pressures, and emotional “gravity” across scenes
- Better pacing and fewer saggy middles: momentum + thresholds (doorways of no return) keep the story moving
- Works across your whole workflow: brainstorming → story bible → chapter plans → drafting → rolling state updates
At Future Fiction Academy, you’ll learn how to *build and apply* the NPE as a reusable system—not a single magic prompt.
What You’ll Master
NPE Fundamentals (TL;DR: It’s a Constraint System): Learn what the Narrative Physics Engine is, why it works, and how it turns “human story intuition” into AI-friendly operating parameters.
Story Forces & Vectors: Translate character wants, fears, obligations, temptations, and trauma into *vectors with direction and magnitude* so the AI can track them instead of improvising randomly.
Fields, Costs, Thresholds & Momentum: Use narrative “physics” like ambient forces (social pressure, power imbalance), energy costs (no free confidence), and irreversible thresholds (doorways of no return) to prevent tonal whiplash and out-of-character decisions.
The Story Seed Game (Madlibs for Better Premises): Generate high-concept, genre-true story seeds—then refine them through controlled “reshuffling” instead of starting from scratch.
Question-First Expansion (The Anti-Boring Output Method): Train the AI to ask the *right* scenario-specific questions (not generic “what’s the backstory?” prompts) to build tension axes and story logic.
Required Data Layer (RDL): Clean up your messy brainstorm into a structured “fuel layer” that makes the NPE run smoothly—Canon vs Preference vs Unknown, clarified.
Story Bible + Engine Packet: Produce a human-readable story bible *and* an AI-facing engine packet with measurable axes and constraints the model can maintain across the book.
NPE Drafting Workflow: Draft chapter-by-chapter using chapter plans + rolling “chapter state updates,” so the AI always knows where every character, relationship, and mystery sits on the story’s axes.
How the Course Works
Step-by-Step Video Lessons: Instructor Stacey walks you through the entire system—from concept to implementation—using a full example (an elevated cozy mystery built from scratch).
Copy/Paste Prompts + Workflow Documents: You’ll get reusable prompt blocks and document organization patterns designed for long-form projects.
Raptor Write 1.0 Demonstrations: The workflow is taught inside Raptor Write 1.0 so *anyone can follow along*, but the method can be adapted to ChatGPT, Claude, TypingMind, and other tools.
Practice, Not Prescription: This isn’t “the one prompt that solves everything.” You’ll learn how to understand, test, and evolve the NPE as models change.
Who Should Enroll?
- Writers who love AI—but hate when it drifts off-tone, off-genre, or out-of-character
- Authors who want structure without rigidity (especially plotters who still want creative surprise)
- Anyone building a series and needing stronger continuity across books
- Writers using Raptor Write, ChatGPT, or Claude who want repeatable, scalable workflows
What You Get When You Enroll
- Full access to the NPE training videos and demos
- NPE reference spec + prompt library (RDL builder, story bible/engine builder, chapter drafting prompts, rolling state updates)
- A complete worked example (from story seed → RDL → story bible → threshold map → chapters)
- A workflow you can reuse for future books and series
Ready to Write with Real “Narrative Gravity”?
If you’re done fighting AI output and ready to build a system that keeps your story’s tension, character logic, and momentum consistent from Chapter 1 to “The End,” the Narrative Physics Engine is your next step.