About this tool
A scene elaborator is for the beat you already know: two people in a room, a choice hanging, and a paragraph that is still outline-speak. Paste the rough note, name the POV and tense if they matter, and get a draft you can cut — not a chapter that replaces your voice.
How to use it
- Paste a short summary or messy paragraph (who, where, what changes).
- Optionally set genre and a focus such as “subtext” or “sensory, not plot”.
- Generate, then steal sentences, not the whole block.
- Run a second pass only after you have marked what must stay true.
Examples
Input
Maya waits at the train station. She sees her ex. She almost leaves. Close third, past tense. Focus: tension.
What you get
A short scene draft with delayed recognition, a physical tell (ticket creased in her pocket), and a last-line decision — plus three revision ideas.
Input
The apprentice opens the sealed conservatory at dawn. The plants remember his teacher. Focus: sensory.
What you get
Humidity, pollen that sticks to a scar, a plant that leans toward a name he has not spoken — beats preserved, atmosphere added.
Input
Detective lets the suspect talk too long. The alibi has a Tuesday problem. Focus: dialogue.
What you get
A dialogue-led draft where the detective withholds the calendar fact until the suspect over-explains.
What “elaborated” should mean
Protect the turn
If your note contains a decision, the draft should still hinge on that decision. Extra weather is not a scene.
Match POV on purpose
Write “close third, past” or “first, present” in the summary. Unspecified POV is how drafts wander into omniscient.
Use it as clay
Keep the line that surprised you. Cut the line that explains the theme. That split is the job.
Avoid
- Pasting a whole chapter and hoping for a polish — this tool expands a beat.
- Asking it to invent a new plot when you only needed texture.