I have been thinking of coding up some more elaborate prompt scaffolding for writing projects.
I guess I don’t need to.
Today, I watched:
It’s a great video.
It uses Make connected to models via OpenRouter.
It’s you’re classic code-free workflow tool, but for prompting LLMs.
It starts with a sequence for developing the story outline, then uses the outline to create 3 outlines of chapters in parallel.
Here’s a screenshot of the overview:
Here’s a screenshot of the workflow for the book outline:
Here’s a screenshot of the workflow for the chapters for act1:
I like this.
I can see areas for improvements, e.g. it clearly needs loops and prior chapter as context for next chapter. But I can also see stuff I would not have thought of, e.g. repeated iterations of critique and improve, especially on the outline where it would have the biggest effect.
It would save me time as I have been doing things like this manually with a suite of front-line models, although with a lot more hand tweaking at each step to push things in the directions I want.
I must experiment with this.
I suspect most no-code automation platforms can do this, e.g. zapier.