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Pick the few details that make a place feel real, then stop describing
Paste your story's key places. Get a few first-to-mind details for each, one fresh comparison and what to leave out.
Scene detail picker is a free AI skill for the job "Write and tell stories". Give the instructions to an AI assistant that supports the required files and tools, then review its output.
Free · No account · Made by AI Blocks · Level: beginner · Thinking: low
What it does
Description goes wrong in two ways. Too little leaves the reader nearsighted. Too much buries the story, and the reader puts the book down because it got boring. The fix is not a rule about length. It is picking details well. This skill works on a place before you draft. It asks you to call the place up all at once, across the five senses, then writes down the first four things that come. First details tend to be the truest. It favours place and texture over faces and clothes, adds one fresh comparison if it can find one that is not a cliche, and lists what to skip. It also marks what the reader will fill in better than you could. You get a short sheet for each place to keep beside the draft.
You give it
- Your situation or brief
- The places your first scenes happen in
- Places you know in real life that they resemble (optional)
- The mood you want in each place (optional)
You get
- 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
Use it when
- Your drafts open with a paragraph of scenery that goes nowhere.
- You are about to write a place you know only a little.
- A reader said they could not picture where it happened.
How to use it
- Start a chat with the skill. Open it if you added it to your AI, or copy it and paste it in.
- Paste your situation, then list the places in order.
- If a place is real, name it. It will use what is true about it and mark what it made up.
- Keep the sheet beside you while you draft.
- Use the details once each. Do not repeat them.