Hire an AI story draft and writing habit planner

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• One what-if question, the people stuck in it and what to leave open
• A daily word count, a finish date and a closed-door routine with a two-week table
• A short detail sheet for each place
• Each day's pages, a facts sheet and tomorrow's first question

How it does the job well

• Clarify the purpose, audience and limits, such as length, format and deadline, first.
• Use the user's materials and voice. Ask for samples when tone matters.
• Be specific and concrete. Cut what does not serve the purpose.
• Say what you are unsure of and where to check it.

Mistakes it avoids

• Generic output that ignores the user's details.
• Inventing facts, quotes or sources.
• Long answers when a short one was asked for.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: You have an idea for a story or book and keep putting off the first page.

• Step 1: The situation. One what-if question, three versions with the pick, the people stuck in it, what to leave open and where to start.
• Step 2: The daily word quota. Your daily word count, days needed, finish date, closed-door routine and a two-week table.
• Step 3: Scene details. For each place, four first-to-mind details, a fresh comparison and a skip list.
• Step 4: Day pages. The day's pages in order, a facts sheet, where it stopped and tomorrow's first question.
• Hand-back summary. Each step's file, any step not run and every MISSING line in one list.

How the work is checked

• Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.
• The steps ran in order. Step 3 used step 1's situation, and step 4 used steps 1, 2 and 3.
• Step 4's pages reach the daily word count from step 2.
• Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

A second opinion

Before it hands back, your AI reviews the draft the way Anne Lamott and Stephen King would. This is a way of reviewing the work. It does not mean they wrote or endorse it.

Capabilities

• Find the situation. Turns your idea into a what-if question, picks the best of three versions and sketches the people stuck in it.
• Set the daily word quota. Works out the daily count, the finish date and the closed-door routine from your length and your hours.
• Pick the scene details. Keeps four first-to-mind details for each place and a skip list, so the scenes stay about the story.
• Write the draft without an outline. Writes the day's pages in order by asking what the people would really do, and hands back a facts sheet for tomorrow.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id fast-first-draft only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/fast-first-draft/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• Your idea, even if it is only a topic or a mood
• The length you are aiming for and the days and minutes you can write
• Places you know well, or the places your first scenes happen (optional)
• A page of your own writing, so the pages sound like you (optional)

Helpful context (optional)

• A page of your own writing, for voice
• Facts you already know about the people, such as ages and jobs
• A photo or notes from a place you know

Tools and access

• Any good chat AI: Keeps the situation, the plan and each day's pages in one thread.
• A plain text file: One file per draft keeps the pages and the facts sheet together.
• Any good chat AI: Comparing three versions and sketching people is plain text work.
• A notebook: Keep a running list of what-if questions as they come. Most will never be used, and that is fine.
• Any good chat AI: This is arithmetic and rules. Any strong chat AI will do it.
• A wall calendar: Cross off each day you hit the count. The crossed days show your pace better than a note.
• Any good chat AI: A short recall exercise per place is plain text work.
• A pocket notebook: Write down real details when you notice them. The best ones come from life.
• Any good chat AI: Writing in order and keeping a facts sheet is plain text work.
• A file or notebook: Keep each day's pages and the facts sheet in one file so day two starts from the right place.

Functions and deliverables

• Story draft and writing habit planner: Build a story situation, word plan and scene details, then write today's pages and carry the facts into the next session.
  • One what-if question, the people stuck in it and what to leave open
  • A daily word count, a finish date and a closed-door routine with a two-week table
  • A short detail sheet for each place
  • Each day's pages, a facts sheet and tomorrow's first question
• Story what-if concept finder: Turn a rough story idea into one what-if question, the people stuck in it and the unknowns to leave open. Find a story situation you can start writing.
  • Three what-if versions with a pass count for each
  • The version it picked, in one sentence
  • Short sketches of the people stuck in it
  • A list of unknowns to leave open, and the place to start the first scene
• Daily word quota planner: Plan a daily word count for your first draft. Give your length and writing days, and get a finish date, a bad-day floor and a closed-door routine.
  • A daily word count with the sum that shows it
  • A finish date, checked against about three months
  • A closed-door routine: room, start time, stop rule, secrecy rule
  • A bad-day floor and a table for the first two weeks
• Scene detail picker: Pick the few details that make a place feel real before you draft. Give it your story's places. You get four details each, plus what to skip.
  • Four first-to-mind details for each place
  • One fresh comparison for each place, or a note that none was good enough
  • A skip list for each place
  • A line saying what to leave to the reader
• Unplotted first-draft writer: Write your first draft without an outline. Paste your situation and word count, and get the day's pages, a facts sheet and tomorrow's first question.
  • The day's pages, in order, ending at the count
  • A facts sheet of names, ages, places and promises on the page
  • Tomorrow's first question
  • A line saying what you did not touch
• me.md builder: Answer a few questions, or let your AI use what it remembers. Get one private file that tells any AI who you are.
  • One me.md file with up to ten dated sections
  • A list of facts taken from memory, for you to check
  • A short note of what it removed for privacy
  • The two next steps, to save it and set it up
• Anne Lamott: Start a draft or project you keep avoiding using Anne Lamott’s recorded approach. Pick one small piece and let the first version be rough.
  • Your problem worked on the way Anne Lamott would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Anne Lamott's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step
• Stephen King: Plan or revise fiction using Stephen King’s recorded craft advice. Start with a situation, build ordinary characters and set a writing habit.
  • Your problem worked on the way Stephen King would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Stephen King's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step

Tasks you can use it for

• You have an idea for a story or book and keep putting off the first page.
• You start drafts and then rewrite the opening until you give up.
• You want a whole draft in about three months.

Limits to check before starting

• You want to plot or outline the story first: this workflow skips outlines, so plan on paper or with a trusted editor instead.
• You already have a finished draft to improve: use the Long-form draft editor.
• You are writing nonfiction, such as a guide or report: use a plain outline and write it section by section.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• Download the handoff pack. It's a zip with HANDOFF.md plus one skill file for each step.
• Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say "Follow HANDOFF.md".
• Give it your idea, your length and your writing days. It works step by step and saves each result.
• Run the last step again each day with the facts sheet and the last paragraph until the draft is done.
• Keep the door shut. Show the draft to nobody until the last word is down.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/fast-first-draft for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.