Narrative Keyframing for Generative Creative Writing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10337v1
• Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:41:29 GMT
• Title: Narrative Keyframing for Generative Creative Writing
• Abstract summary: Narrative keyframing lets writers specify different types of narrative constraints at selected moments in a story, then use AI to generate intervening prose.<n>Inspired by the use of keyframing in animation, narrative keyframing offers a flexible way to connect planning with adaptive control over generated text.<n>We show that narrative keyframing supports a more controllable, transparent, and engaging way to use generative AI in creative writing.
• Score: 13.012154147575876
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We introduce narrative keyframing, an interaction technique for AI-assisted creative writing that lets writers specify different types of narrative constraints at selected moments in a story, then use AI to generate intervening prose. Inspired by the use of keyframing in animation, narrative keyframing offers a flexible way to connect story planning with adaptive control over generated text. We explore three types of keyframes: plot keyframes define significant events in a story, character keyframes represent how individual characters change over the narrative, and perspective keyframes capture how individual characters experience different events through first-person narratives. Plot and character keyframes offer a flexible way to adapt the type of high-level conditioning explored in previous AI writing tools to more customizable, iterative, and fine-scale control, while perspective keyframes add a new way to control characterization and focalization by using first-person narratives as an intermediary. Through a user study, we show that narrative keyframing supports a more controllable, transparent, and engaging way to use generative AI in creative writing.

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