arXiv AI

NarrativeSteward: Coordinating Delegation, Guidance, and Verification in Agent-Assisted Interactive Narrative Authoring

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 14

The House with a Million Windows: Interactive Fiction for Narrative Restorying

The House with a Million Windows (HWAMW) is an LLM-based interactive fiction system that lets users narrate a story and then view it through a series of AI-generated "windows" that reframe the narrative in various literary styles. The system is grounded in the psychological restorying intervention, aiming to deepen users' exploration of meaning in their personal stories. Empirical results indicate that HWAMW enhances users' sense of narrative identity, and expert reviews suggest it achieves this by facilitating restorying rather than simply generating new content.

By Cody Kommers, Sarah G Immel, Drew Hemment, Mina Lee
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 15

MUSE: A Theory-Harnessed Story Engine for Vibe Narrativizing

MUSE is a story‑generation engine that applies Robert McKee’s narrative theory to guide decisions about plot, character, and language throughout planning, drafting, and revision. It structures story knowledge into rule atoms, semantic consolidations, and mechanisms, and uses intermediate deliverables to preserve decisions across creative stages. Experiments show MUSE improves benchmark scores over zero‑shot generation and maintains low consistency errors across multiple models.

By Jianxiang Ma, Xiaocui Yang, Daling Wang, Yuesong Hou, Mingfu Zhang, Yichen Gao, Junzhao Huang