About this generator
General fiction is fiction that leads with character rather than genre. It is not defined by magic systems, crime puzzles, or romance tropes — it is defined by people in situations that matter to them. Two estranged sisters inheriting a decaying vineyard and the feud buried in its accounts — that is general fiction because the story is about the sisters, not about the vineyard or the genre category.
Character-first structure
The book writer for general fiction produces chapter paths organized around character development rather than plot escalation. The question is not "what happens next" but "how does this character change." Each chapter should leave the protagonist in a slightly different emotional or psychological position than it found them.
This does not mean general fiction lacks plot. It means the plot serves character revelation rather than the other way around. The vineyard needs to be saved — that is plot. But the real story is what the sisters discover about each other, their parents, and themselves during the process of saving it.
Literary versus commercial
General fiction spans a range from literary (language-focused, thematically ambitious, comfortable with ambiguity) to commercial (plot-driven, accessible, emotionally satisfying). The generator can produce either. Include your preference in the brief: "a literary novel about memory and inheritance" produces different output from "an accessible family drama."
The voice test is crucial for general fiction because voice carries more weight here than in genre fiction. A literary novel with a flat narrative voice fails regardless of how good the plot is. Read the voice test and ask: would I spend three hundred pages with this narrator?
Theme and subtext
General fiction often has a thematic concern that runs beneath the surface plot. The generator can build this in if you include it in the brief. "A novel about two sisters and a vineyard that is really about how women inherit their mothers' failures" gives the model both the surface and the subtext to work with.