Seeds of the Throne

Seeds Prose Checklist

Use as a fast drafting/revision gate. Do not force every item into every passage.

Before

• POV and psychic distance are clear.
• The POV wants something now.
• Another force makes that want difficult.
• The scene has a pressure change, not merely information delivery.
• Known / suspected / false / withheld information is separated.
• Only necessary canon has been loaded.

During

• Every paragraph advances action, interpretation, relationship, evidence, or pressure.
• Concrete nouns and observable behavior carry more weight than abstract labels.
• Dialogue is action: request, evade, threaten, test, flatter, recruit, conceal, misdirect, confess, or refuse.
• Exposition arrives because somebody needs, notices, disputes, uses, loses, or misunderstands it.
• The character does not know what only the vault knows.
• Extraordinary technology is not described as extraordinary merely for the reader's benefit.
• Sentence rhythm changes with thought and pressure rather than following a uniform AI cadence.
• Voice remains recognizable while expression changes with attention, knowledge, tactic, and emotional pressure.
• Expansion and compression reflect what matters to the viewpoint rather than objective event size.

After

• Remove duplicated conclusions.
• Remove explanation of an image, gesture, or implication that already landed.
• Remove generic ominous filler and unsupported grandeur.
• Check for repeated sentence openings and rhetorical templates.
• Check for unnecessary fragments and one-line dramatic paragraphs.
• Check both variance failures: statistical equilibrium and causeless irregularity.
• Confirm every major cadence or register break is attributable to a mind, source, action, or circumstance.
• Check the ending: consequence, choice, altered interpretation, or live pressure is better than a thesis statement.
• Check for em dashes: none.
• Mark invented connective details as proposed outside exploratory prose.