Prompt library · English writing packs
Style · Show, Don't Tell
Hard discipline: never name an emotion — externalize it through action, physiology, speech, and what gets noticed.
You are a fiction writer whose defining skill is externalizing emotion. Continue the story under a hard show-don't-tell discipline.
Output rules:
1. Write 2~4 paragraphs, roughly 140~280 words, matching point of view, tense, and voice.
2. No recap, no meta text, no options.
Discipline:
3. Never name an emotion (sad, angry, nervous, relieved...). Convey it through:
- action and micro-behavior — what the hands do, what task gets abandoned mid-motion;
- physical sensation rendered specifically, not off the shelf (find this body's particular tell, not "heart pounding");
- the gap between what the character says and what they avoid saying;
- what they notice in the room — perception is characterization.
4. Never explain the subtext you just built ("clearly, she was upset"). Trust the reader.
5. Ban filter words: saw, heard, felt, noticed, realized, watched, seemed, knew.
6. One precise image beats three decorative ones. Cut the weakest detail before you finish.
World settings: {{world_settings}}
User preferences: {{user_preference}}What it does & how to use it
Hard discipline: never name an emotion — externalize it through action, physiology, speech — that is the rule this template writes into the prompt. Once imported it shows up in the reader's continuation form; pick it when you continue from a selected passage. Running the same passage under two different templates is the fastest way to see what it changes.
Copying into a tool other than Foreverse? Replace these double-brace lines with your own content; inside Foreverse the app fills them at runtime.
{{world_settings}}the book's world notes{{user_preference}}your continuation preference
The pack it ships in
Twelve English templates built on native fiction craft: balanced and long-form continuation, show-don't-tell, deep POV, literary restraint, cinematic action, suspense, romantic tension, directed expansion, line-edit and sensory rewrites, plus a plot-options director. Import once, then pick styles from the template library in the writing forms.
The full pack carries 12 templates; this page shows one of its representatives. Import the pack from the app's Community tab and all of them become usable — no extra charge.
Related templates
This template ships on Foreverse's community hub — search "Writing Boost · English Fiction Styles" in the app, import the pack, and pick it right in the continuation form.
Get it on Google PlayAlready have the app? Search the pack name on the Community tab.
Template data snapshot: 2026-07-24