Creative writing is hard: Novelists struggle with writer's block daily. While automatic story generation has advanced recently, it is treated as a "toy task" for advancing artificial intelligence rather than helping people. In this paper, we create a system that produces a short description that narrates a predicted plot using existing story generation approaches. Our goal is to assist writers in crafting a consistent and compelling story arc. We conducted experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) to examine the quality of the generated story plots in terms of consistency and storiability. The results show that short descriptions produced by our frame-enhanced GPT-2 (FGPT-2) were rated as the most consistent and storiable among all models; FGPT-2's outputs even beat some random story snippets written by humans. Next, we conducted a preliminary user study using a story continuation task where AMT workers were given access to machine-generated story plots and asked to write a follow-up story. FGPT-2 could positively affect the writing process, though people favor other baselines more. Our study shed some light on the possibilities of future creative writing support systems beyond the scope of completing sentences. Our code is available at: https://github.com/appleternity/Story-Plot-Generation.

本文介绍一种基于GPT-2的系统，利用自动故事生成技术生成可靠的短篇小说情节，以协助作家构建一个一致且引人入胜的情节，实验表明，该系统产生的短篇小说情节在一致性和可故事性等方面优于其他模型，作者尝试了一种story continuation任务，以确定该系统如何影响创意写作的过程。

向用户传达预测未来：故事情节预测案例研究