Research Reference
Raw material behind the method. Twenty-four agents across ten craft lenses and four forensic audits of the finished novels: 269 human practices with their mechanisms, 270 transfer assessments, 120 candidate rules, 116 instruments unavailable to a human novelist, and 67 forensic findings with file-level evidence.
This is a library, not reading material. The method itself is the eight documents one level up, and it runs to about 17,000 words. This directory is here because the author does not persist between sessions (R1) and re-deriving it costs more than storing it.
The library predates the world contract and is kept as it was written, so a few of its names are
one revision behind the rest of the repository: where it says voice-profile.json, read
templates/voice-profile.toml, and where it says <book>/, read <product>/.
| 00 · Summary | The transfer verdict, and every practice judged an inversion, a trap, or useless. Start here — it is the shortest file and the highest-value one. |
| 01 · Human Practice | 269 practices with attribution and mechanism, by lens. |
| 02 · Candidate Rules | 120 rules proposed; 39 were selected. Several unselected ones are stronger but too narrow or too expensive for a constitution. |
| 03 · Opportunities | 116 instruments that exist only for a writer who can manufacture readers, withhold context from itself, and revise at no cost. |
| 04 · Forensics | The four audits of the corpus: defect ground truth, idiolect, production process, voice. |
The one number to take away
Of 270 human writing practices assessed against an LLM author’s actual affordances:
| direct | modified | inverted | trap | useless |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80 (30%) | 139 (51%) | 26 (10%) | 21 (8%) | 4 (1%) |
Half need modification and roughly one in five is an inversion, a trap, or inert. That ratio is why the method could not be assembled by reading craft books and following them: it would be right about a third of the time by construction, wrong precisely where the advice quietly assumes a human, and would feel correct throughout — because the ritual is reassuring whether or not it produces the result.