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Told almost nothing about writing a page

For a long time, Develop ran one prompt for two jobs. Planning a document and writing a scene's pages went through the same briefing, with sections switched off depending on which one was asked for.

The problem was what stayed on. The pass that writes actual screenplay was still being told how to rate a sequence's rhythm, what a relationship's nature field carries, and how many pages the whole story projects — and almost nothing about how a page reads, how pages are stored, or which handful of fields writing is even allowed to touch.

0.12.4 splits it into two briefings that don't share a body. A planner reads what a planner needs. A writer reads what a writer needs. Neither reads the other's leftovers.