Webnovel De-AI-fication
0. Boundaries
- Only revise expression, craft, and already-established narrative connections; do not alter events, motivations, outcomes, character knowledge, or the order of revelation.
- Retain sentence constructions, long sentences, parallel structures, direct emotional statements, and punctuation preferences that the author explicitly preserves.
- Read the full text before editing. Do not add new plot points, use wrong characters, break sentences, or cycle synonyms to evade judgment.
- A term matching list is a clue, not a blanket deletion order; each issue must be judged in context.
1. Three-Layer Diagnosis
Expression Layer
- Telegraphic sentences: Position, reason, and action each occupy a separate clause, announced item by item. First determine which action or change this paragraph is about, then prioritize the main trunk, embedding background via adverbials, attributives, and compound sentences.
- Short, choppy sentences: Ordinary narration is cut into a string of short sentences. Merge until the meaning is complete before breaking; keep choppy sentences only for explosive moments, twists, and chapter endings.
- Negation reversal: "Not A, but B" negates a straw target no one cares about. Write B directly; retain for corrections, justifications, or excluding guesses.
- Universal adverbs and formulaic tones: "With a hint of..." "The voice was soft, but brooked no argument." Delete until only distinguishable tone or necessary information remains.
- Template metaphors and abstract buzzwords: "Like a tidal wave" "The gears of fate." Replace with something the character knows and has at hand.
- Quotation mark emphasis: Common nouns packaged as "opportunity" or "answer." Remove quotation marks.
Craft Layer
- Unclear scene purpose: If this paragraph were deleted, would the plot, relationships, or information suffer? If not, delete it or compress it into one sentence.
- Imbalanced pacing: Satisfying points, twists, and emotional climaxes are glossed over, while transitions are filled in detail. Write dense scenes beat by beat; summarize loose scenes.
- Key processes summarized: "Fought for a while" "Everyone nodded in agreement" "Seven or eight times in a row." Pick out the specific beats and write them beat by beat.
- Emotions translated through micro-movements: "Fingertips paused, knuckles turned white, gaze shifted, breath caught." If context already establishes the emotion, don't supplement; when emotion changes the next step, write the choice, dialogue, strategy, or cost; if the body is actually affected, write the consequence.
- Expository narration: "What really matters is" "This means" "She finally understood." Delete the conclusion; keep actions, dialogue, and objects.
- Bookish dialogue: All characters speak in complete sentences and elegant rhetorical questions. Restore tone, ellipses, repetition, and silence according to identity, occasion, and intent.
- Perfect parallelism: Repeated identical sentence structures and lengths that only restate the same conclusion should be merged; keep when they carry progression or contrast.
Story Causality Layer
- Why does the character act? Missing motivation, missing cost, missing antecedent. Supplement with already-established connections; if a plot change is needed, mark it as pending author decision; do not change on your own.
- The character knows something they shouldn't. Correct according to point of view and order of knowledge.
- Emotion lacks a landing: What is the target emotion? Is it delivered in this chapter? Deliver through choices, consequences, and relationship changes, not adjectives.
- Chapter ending relies on insight, elevation, or preview: Replace with a concrete action, object, unfinished event, or information gap.
2. Rewriting Workflow
- Read through the chapter; write one sentence summarizing the chapter's function and target emotion.
- Mark issues paragraph by paragraph: whether they belong to expression, craft, or story causality.
- Fix story causality first, then craft, then wording. Do not reverse the order.
- Make only the minimum change per issue; preserve the author's original voice and established plot.
- After fixing, read the entire paragraph continuously; check for broken punctuation, ambiguous references, and causal jumps.
- Do not mechanically replace the same problem across the entire piece; judge each instance by context.
3. Retention Checklist
- The author's characteristic long sentences, short sentences, dialect, pet phrases, and pauses.
- Functional repetition, parallelism, direct emotional statements, and narrator commentary.
- Plot-required abnormal punctuation, system prompts, bullet comments, letters, and stylistic registers.
- Deliberately incomplete, roundabout, or repetitive character dialogue.
4. Delivery
- State which layer was revised, which paragraphs were changed, and which issues require author decision.
- Do not promise detection scores; do not treat term matching as the only criterion.
- Do not add new characters, settings, props, or conflicts; when a new element is needed, ask the author first.