Spark Workshop
Ray's Tattoo Studio
Turn a messy idea into a clean, tattoo-worthy story premise. Warmup questions, genre bubbles, and the messy idea box are free. Only the AI actions below will spend Story Cores.
Genre & trope playground
Click bubbles that feel close. As you pick genres, subgenres, and tropes, they'll quietly feed into your messy idea box.
Big genre bubbles
Flavors of Romance
Subgenres / flavors. Pick as many as you like.
Tropes, dynamics, or angles that fit this genre.
Spark warmup questions
Skim a few before you hit any AI buttons. Let your brain chew on the vibe first, then use the tools to shape it.
Non-fiction Spark prompts are coming soon. This warmup is currently fiction-focused.
For you only • No AI
No Cores
1. Do you already know the genre, or does it feel blurry?
2. List 3 movies that, if people liked those, they'd probably like this book.
3. List 5 songs that would be on your book's soundtrack.
4. If this story were a movie, would it feel more like an indie film or a blockbuster?
5. When someone finishes this book, what emotion do you want to linger the longest?
6. What emotions do you want readers to feel at the beginning, middle, and end?
7. What scene did you first picture when this idea came to you?
8. What part of this idea excites you the most — the world, the romance, the danger, the mystery, or something else?
9. What’s the soft, quiet theme hiding under the big idea?
10. Do your characters remind you of people you’ve known or different sides of yourself? If so, who, why, and in what way? If not, what do they remind you of?
11. What’s the world like that your characters live in?
12. If this story were a mood board, what kinds of textures and colors would show up?
13. If this story were a scent, would it feel fresh, warm, sharp, heavy, or sweet?
14. If this story were a gift you could give a reader, what feeling would you wrap it in?
15. How much time will pass for your characters between the beginning and the end of this book?
Upload vibes
Drop in reference material — notes, sketches, screenshots, mood art. For now, we just record the file name as a mood anchor.
Messy idea box
This box pulls together your answers, chosen genres, tropes, and upload vibes. Tweak it, delete things, add new thoughts.
Shined Up Spark
This is the cleaned-up premise or short pitch we'll carry into the rest of your Everdraft journey.
Take it with you
Print it, save it, or send it on to the next module. You can always come back and adjust the spark later.
Igniting the spark means you're ready to carry this idea forward into Characters, World, and Plot.