develop-concept

Develop a story concept by running a focused discovery conversation where the AI assistant reads your existing book context and asks structured questions to progressively build your premise, protagonist, conflict, and ending into a story_concept.md file.

Focused story concept discovery is a structured question-and-answer process that extracts essential narrative elements like premise and conflict. You need it when starting a new book or revising an existing concept to ensure all core story components are captured.

Yes, the concept discovery process automatically reads existing CLAUDE.md, characters, world_rules, and open_questions files from your book directory to inform the dialogue and ensure the new story concept aligns with your established narrative context.

The best way to structure book concept creation is through a single question-and-answer cycle that progressively builds the concept, synthesizes your commitments into focused edits, and automatically updates both story_concept.md and open_questions.md files.

After completing story concept development, you should follow the recommended next steps, which typically include developing characters, expanding world rules, resolving open questions, or moving directly to beat generation for your book.

Yes, story concept discovery works for both creating and revising a book's story_concept.md. It reads existing context files and runs a focused dialogue to refine the premise, protagonist, conflict, and ending for books already under development.