The research notes in here concern the Sigurd model. Do not apply anything in here to newer models (e.g. Euterpe or Krake).

For Euterpe and Krake there is a guide by pume_ that describes current best practices for memory (an important note is that you want to use the ideas discovered here in Memory, not in Author's Note).

The following have been tried by people and might be worth to experiment with:

setting:
writing style: (suggested by Shincore: "strikingly vivd& descriptive& verbose")
style: (used by Potato - shorter form of writing style perhaps?)
format: (suggested by Shincore: "rewrite input text in prose and the story continues")
theme: 
author:
focus:
genre:
rating:
scene:
goal:
situation:
storyline:
Tone: (not too strong)
Write: (see Wolfhound's example)
Year: (OccultSage, works surpsingly well - although zaltys noted just doing something like "1867 AD" without "Year:" might work better)
Period: (OccultSage, could need more testing but first results seem promisings)

That being said the following categories are the ones actually used in the fine-tune (Zaltys) [ Author: <author>; Tags: <tag list>; Genre: <genre list> ] Recommended for tags (Zaltys):

Themes such as 'military' or 'robots', and misc tags like 'female protagonist', 'France', '1600s', etc.

• sesquipedalian for purple prose (amiavamp, Cass) Cass: "I will say, "sesquipedalian" is SUPER heavy. Even with no context just having [ Writing style: sesquipedalian.] does a ton. (Using Monky settings + OPVAM scaffolding)"
• Leo Trotsky (by Potato - used in [Style: Leo Trotsky]. Might also try as author: attribute?)

  It's...hella purple, but in a run-on sentence kind of way.

• Creative to be more "story-like" (Kaelia)

  Sometimes you just have to be very literal. It decides that this is no longer a wiki page and is creative writing, so instead of "x says, y says" I get "x assures you, y decides" and so on, and the general flow is just less like a manual and more like, well, writing

• chaotic and bad seems to works quite well...but why would you want this? (Arjuna)

• H.P. Lovecraft: "gave me purple prose by itself, though there are likely other authors that work even better. Someone romantic era." (amiavamp)
• A.A. Milne, Kenneth Grahame, Tove Jansson: "the cuteness is too strong" (tymime)
• Robert E. Howard: "It's the most consistent one I've found." (placebomancer)
• Terry Pratchett: for silly and whimsical stories (Kalmarr)

• light and peaceful (Arjuna)

• Try including a quote from the author's work. That should get you outputs more closely matching that author.

[ Author: Lovecraft, Genre: Cosmic horror, Style: Write descriptive prose with an eerie tone.]
[ "And with strange aeons even death may die."]

• Should also be very useful if you want to generate a prompt in the style of a certain author
• OccultSage has taken this approach to the extreme with his Nabokov generator (discord link), by not only using A/N, but also injecting several quotes into context with Lore entries

• Using & instead of commas in lists (Kalmarr):
  • In both v2 and v3, using commas to separate lists appears to have a detrimental effect on items later in the list.
    • With [ Writing Style: sesquipedalian, creative ], I found that the creative attribute was less powerful.
    • When replacing , with & in the above example, saw instant effect with more creative and enjoyable writing in outputs.
    • && appears to also reinforce the individual list items, perhaps more strongly, but I have not tested it for more than two items in one list.

(Note: These are from early days. The formatting below might not be ideal. Keeping these as inspirations for now)

(from Shincore)
[use first person perspective;setting: modern day USA;writing style: strikingly vivid, descriptive, inventive, talkative;format: rewrite input text in detailed and verbose purple prose;genre: LITEROTICA;rating: XXX-rated;content warning: ...;storyline: ...]

(from Wolfhound)
[Writing style: vivid, descriptive, purple prose, first-person, futurist romanticism visuals; Dialog style: Use very long and complex dialog; Genre: western, sci-fi , drama, novel; Write: A story about being the first colonists on a new uninhabited planet;]

"Write:" is very powerful hint in author's notes

(from Basileus)
to get wordy prose in a story:

[ Writing Style: Give vivid, detailed descriptions using elaborate prose that viscerally evokes all senses.]

Has worked pretty well for me, alongside other stuff I keep in the A/N

Full A/N example:

[ Genre: Grim, futuristic sci-fi horror.]
[ Tone: Show tense dread and thrilling action in gritty scenes.]
[ Writing Style: Give vivid, detailed descriptions using elaborate prose that viscerally evokes all senses.]
[ Focus: Follow Nora as she struggles to survive against ambushes by alien predators.]

a little longer than I'd like, but working well for now. May try replacing "Focus" with "Scene".

(from amiavamo)
to get more purple prose

[Writing style: purple prose, flowery, esoteric, sesquipedalian; Author: Henry David Thoreau.]

Henry David Thoreau makes it too specific I should add. It makes it reference the other authors/poets of his genre and time often

for "beige" prose

[Writing Style: purple prose, flowery, occult, eldritch, tense; Genre: gothic horror, mystery.]