The story behind the spark

# About
Fiction Ignition

A writing tool built by a writer who got tired of staring at blank pages.

The beginning

## Every writer knows the blank page.

Fiction Ignition was born from a simple frustration: the hardest part of writing isn't the writing — it's starting. The cursor blinks. The page stays white. The story that felt so vivid in your mind dissolves the moment you sit down to find it.

I wanted to build something that actually helps — not a list of tired prompts recycled from a 2009 blog post, but something alive. Something that could understand genre, understand mood, and generate a single spark specific enough to catch fire.

That's Fiction Ignition.

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The craft

## Built for writers, by a writer.

Fiction Ignition is powered by Anthropic's Claude AI — one of the most capable language models available — but the prompts it generates aren't just technically correct. They're vivid, specific, and immediately usable.

Every genre has its own conventions, reader expectations, and emotional register. A horror prompt should create dread. A literary fiction prompt should feel like an observation that makes you feel seen. The AI is instructed to honor those distinctions.

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The person

## Hi. I'm Mark Bogner.

MB

I built Fiction Ignition because I believe stories matter — and I believe every person who wants to tell one deserves a better starting point than a blank, indifferent screen.

I'm a writer, builder, and relentless tinkerer. Fiction Ignition started as a WordPress plugin, grew into something I couldn't stop thinking about, and became the platform you're reading about now.

What we stand for

## Our beliefs about writing

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### The prompt is a beginning, not an assignment.

A great writing prompt opens a door — it doesn't tell you what's on the other side. Fiction Ignition prompts are springboards, not blueprints.

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### AI amplifies creativity — it doesn't replace it.

The AI sparks the idea. The human writes the story. Fiction Ignition will never write your story for you. That's yours. We just help you find the door.

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### Access to creative tools should be democratic.

That's why there's always a free tier. Great writing doesn't care about your income. Paid tiers sustain the platform, not gatekeep the spark.

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### Specificity is everything.

"Write about a character with a secret" is not a prompt — it's a shrug. Fiction Ignition prompts name the era, the image, the tension. Specificity makes a story feel inevitable.

Under the hood

## How it's built

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Anthropic Claude AI

All prompts generated using Claude — one of the world's most capable and safety-focused AI models. Author Pro accesses an upgraded model tier.

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Secure Tier Verification

User accounts are verified against a user database on every session. Tier-based feature gates — prompt limits, history, export, custom genres — are enforced server-side in production. The backend integration points are clearly marked in the code.

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HTML, CSS & JavaScript

A hand-crafted multi-page site — no heavy frameworks, no bloat. Fast, accessible, and designed to last. Ready to connect to any backend.

## The story starts with you.

Fiction Ignition just lights the match.

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