Pastiche Novel Generation Creating: Fan Fiction You Love in Your Favorite Author's Style

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15616v1
• Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:40:42 GMT
• Title: Pastiche Novel Generation Creating: Fan Fiction You Love in Your Favorite Author's Style
• Authors: Xueran Han, Yuhan Liu, Mingzhe Li, Wei Liu, Sen Hu, Rui Yan, Zhiqiang Xu, Xiuying Chen,
• Abstract summary: We propose WriterAgent, a novel generation system designed to master the core aspects of literary pastiche.<n>WriterAgent is trained through a curriculum learning paradigm, progressing from low-level stylistic mastery to high-level narrative coherence.<n>We evaluate WriterAgent on multilingual classics like Harry Potter and Dream of the Red Chamber, demonstrating its superiority over baselines.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Great novels create immersive worlds with rich character arcs, well-structured plots, and nuanced writing styles. However, current novel generation methods often rely on brief, simplistic story outlines and generate details using plain, generic language. To bridge this gap, we introduce the task of Pastiche Novel Generation, which requires the generated novels to imitate the distinctive features of the original work, including understanding character profiles, predicting plausible plot developments, and writing concrete details using vivid, expressive language. To achieve this, we propose WriterAgent, a novel generation system designed to master the core aspects of literary pastiche. WriterAgent is trained through a curriculum learning paradigm, progressing from low-level stylistic mastery to high-level narrative coherence. Its key tasks include language style learning, character modeling, plot planning, and stylish writing, ensuring comprehensive narrative control. To support this, WriterAgent leverages the WriterLoRA framework, an extension of LoRA with hierarchical and cumulative task-specific modules, each specializing in a different narrative aspect. We evaluate WriterAgent on multilingual classics like Harry Potter and Dream of the Red Chamber, demonstrating its superiority over baselines in capturing the target author's settings, character dynamics, and writing style to produce coherent, faithful narratives.

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