Generate the next episode from the one you just finished

A sequel is a promise kept

Every cliffhanger is a promise. The next episode has to pay it off, keep the facts straight, and set up the one after. Doing that by hand across a season is where most short series lose their thread. The sequel generator takes the last episode's cliffhanger as its starting point and the ledger as its rulebook, so the proposal pays off what was promised without contradicting what was established.

You stay the writer. The proposal is a draft you accept, edit or discard, and you can steer it with a one-line direction before it is generated.

What a proposal contains

A title. A synopsis between sixty and one hundred twenty words. A new cliffhanger in one or two sentences. Three to five beats, each written to be filmable as one take of four to fifteen seconds with at most three characters in one place, each with a line of dialogue. And the list of threads from the ledger the episode touches, so you can see at a glance whether it advances the story or just marks time.

Accept it and the episode is created in outline state with the beats on its board. Each beat can be expanded to a full take prompt for one credit, with the same ledger in context.

• Two credits per proposal
• Pays off the latest cliffhanger
• Beats sized for single takes
• Optional one-line direction

Sequels and recaps together

Once the sequel has a couple of finished takes, two things become possible. You can cut a "previously on" recap for it from the earlier episodes' takes, choosing the beats its story depends on. And you can go back to the previous episode and build a "next time" teaser from the sequel's takes, then re-cut the previous episode so it ends on that tease. The series starts to feel like a broadcast run rather than a set of clips.

When the proposal is wrong

A useful habit is to draft the sequel immediately after saving the ledger update for the episode you just finished. The ledger is at its most accurate at that moment, the cliffhanger is fresh, and the proposal will usually need the least editing. Drafting three episodes ahead in one sitting is possible but each later draft only knows what the ledger knew at the start.

Sometimes the drafter will pay off a cliffhanger in a way you did not intend, or move a thread you wanted to hold. Discard it and draft again with a direction, or accept it and rewrite the synopsis by hand. Either way, update the ledger afterwards so the next sequel starts from the story you actually told. The ledger delta is drafted from the synopsis you saved, not from the proposal.