Novel-Control-Station-Skill/references/chapter-control-card.md

Chapter Control Card

Generate this before drafting every chapter.

# Chapter Control Card

## Chapter Identity
- chapter:
- mode:
- point_of_view:
- primary_style:
- support_style:

## Chapter Mission
- core_goal:
- required_plotlines:
- required_prior_debts:

## Chapter Title
- title_mode:
- title_system_reference:
- primary_title_job:
- secondary_title_job:
- title_anchor:
- title_candidates:
- working_title:
- spoiler_risk:
- final_title_recheck:

## Recall And Return Pressure
- retrieval_slice_targets:
- cold_lines_due:
- characters_due_for_return:
- relationships_due_for_bridge:
- foreshadows_due_or_overdue:
- world_rules_in_play:

## Conflict
- external_conflict:
- internal_conflict:
- relational_conflict:

## Character Use
- appearing_characters:
- character_desires_this_chapter:
- character_concealments_this_chapter:
- protagonist_personality_trigger:
- character_increment:
- arc_progression_point:

## Foreshadowing
- new_plants:
- active_callbacks:
- blocked_reveals:

## Scene Execution
- scene_pressure_shape:
- planned_unit_count:
- scene_units:
  - unit_label:
    - goal:
    - conflict:
    - turn_or_aftershock:
    - carryover:
  - add_more_if_needed:

## Theme Pressure
- human_truth_exposed:
- central_question_pressure:
- value_collision:
- social_or_era_pressure:
- motif_or_image_return:

## Style Execution
- required_effects:
- optional_effects:
- forbidden_drift:
- dialogue_task:
- suspense_task:
- structure_task:
- authenticity_focus:
- hook_type:
- closure_type:
- theme_landing_action:

## Risk Scan
- missing_information:
- conflicts_found:
- continuity_risks:
- forgotten_element_risk:
- trope_convenience_risk:
- user_branch:

## Benchmark Check
- benchmark_group:
- hard_gates:
- down_weighted_checks:
- authenticity_risk:
- failed_dimensions:
- rewrite_direction_if_failed:

## Marathon Control
- marathon_mode:
- next_line_auto_entry:

## Ending Hook
- chapter_end_hook:

Minimum standard:

• every chapter must advance at least one main obligation
• every chapter must carry at least one emotional or structural debt forward
• every chapter must identify recall and return pressure when the project has recurring density
• every chapter must expose one human pressure, not only chapter logistics
• every chapter must either define scene progression or consciously justify a looser structure
• every chapter may use as few or as many scene units as the chapter genuinely needs
• every chapter must state how benchmark expectations were met or intentionally down-weighted
• every chapter must define dialogue, suspense, or structure tasks when those pressures are active
• every chapter must mark authenticity focus when prose risks generic drift
• if titled chapters are active, every control card must generate 3-5 candidates and choose one working title
• a chapter title must signal pressure, orientation, or residue rather than summarize the whole chapter
• a working title may change after drafting if the chapter's true center moved
• every hook must connect to an existing line, not a random surprise