Backbone Template

Compressed story → Eyuun expansion → final prose

Ratio: ~400-600 words backbone → 2,400-3,000 words output (4-5 pages)

Format

# Scene [X]: [Title]

**Anchor:** [Where. When. Mood in 5 words or less.]
**Pages:** [target output: 4-5]
**POV:** [whose head we're in]

## Beats
1. [First thing that happens]
2. [Next]
3. [Next]
4. [The turn — something shifts]
5. [Landing]

## Voice (sacred lines)
- "Exact dialogue that must survive."
- "Another line."
- [BEAT: Non-verbal moment that must happen exactly]

## Senses
- [Sound, smell, texture — details Eyuun can expand]

## Arc
[Character]: [starting emotion] → [ending emotion]

## Notes to Eyuun
- EXPAND: [what to flesh out]
- SPARSE: [what to keep tight]
- AVOID: [what NOT to do]

Field Guide

Field	Purpose	Example
Anchor	Ground the scene fast	Helga's forge. Dusk. Heavy air.
Pages	Target output length	4-5
POV	Whose head we're in	Kael
Beats	What happens, in order	Numbered list, tight verbs
Voice	Sacred lines — verbatim	Dialogue or [BEAT: action]
Senses	Hooks for expansion	Sound, smell, texture, light
Arc	Emotional journey	Kael: impatient → unsettled
Notes	Instructions to Eyuun	EXPAND / SPARSE / AVOID

Voice Anchor Types

"Dialogue." — exact line that must appear
[BEAT: description] — non-verbal moment that must happen
[IMAGE: description] — visual that must land

Rules

Backbone is creative work — this is where the story lives
Eyuun expands, doesn't invent — beats are the skeleton
Voice anchors are sacred — they survive expansion unchanged
Sparse > bloated — better to underwrite than overexplain
One scene = one backbone — don't combine

Workflow

1. Write backbone (~400-600 words)
2. Review — beats clear? voice anchors right?
3. Queue for Eyuun expansion
4. Review output — cut bloat, verify voice
5. Lock final prose

Storage

story/
  vol-01/
    ch-01/
      scene-01-backbone.md    ← your work
      scene-01-expanded.md    ← Eyuun output
      scene-01-final.md       ← locked prose

"Write the bones. Let Eyuun add the flesh."