Ideation is essential for creative writing. Many authors struggle to come up with ideas throughout the writing process, yet modern writing tools fail to provide on-the-spot assistance for writers when they get stuck. This paper introduces Heteroglossia, an add-on for Google Docs that allows writers to elicit story ideas from the online crowd using their text editors. Writers can share snippets of their working drafts and ask the crowd to provide follow-up story ideas based on it. Heteroglossia employs a strategy called "role play", where each worker is assigned a fictional character in a story and asked to brainstorm plot ideas from that character's perspective. Our deployment with two experienced story writers shows that Heteroglossia is easy to use and can generate interesting ideas. Heteroglossia allows us to gain insight into how future technologies can be developed to support ideation in creative writing

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异语：与人群的原位故事构思

构思对于创意写作至关重要。许多作者在整个写作过程中都在努力提出想法，但现代写作工具无法在作家遇到困难时为他们提供现场帮助。本文介绍了 Heteroglossia，它是 Google Docs 的一个附加组件，允许作者使用他们的文本编辑器从在线人群中引出故事创意。作家可以分享他们的工作草稿片段，并要求人群提供基于它的后续故事想法。Heteroglossia 采用了一种称为“角色扮演”的策略，每个工人在故事中被分配一个虚构角色，并要求从该角色的角度集思广益。我们与两位经验丰富的故事作者的部署表明，Heteroglossia 易于使用并且可以产生有趣的想法。