Shared Dao Shared vocabulary is the contract between the author's intent and agent action. Ambiguous, overloaded, drifting, or misleading terms corrupt drafts early: magic systems get renamed, factions blur together, genre terms mean different things in different prompts, and characters speak with vocabulary the author never intended. Treat vocabulary problems as story-structure problems. Resolve terminology while the meaning is still easy to sharpen. Core Discipline Scrutinize important terms aggressively. Reuse existing names when they already fit the concept. Converge on one name per conce…