Creative Writing Craft

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Craft references for writing fiction well: prose, scenes, style, voice, and genre/page-level technique. Load when a writer, critic, or muse needs how-to-write guidance rather than a production mode.

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AI-generated overview

Reference guidance on fiction craft: prose technique, scene construction, style analysis, and genre-specific writing.

What it does
This skill supplies how-to-write reference material for fiction, covering prose technique, scene mechanics, and style analysis. It points the agent to individual resource files on psychic distance, free indirect discourse, rhythm, sensory grounding, interiority and point of view, plus scene entry, dialogue, pacing and transitions. It also includes style-analysis guidance for examining prose samples and producing style reference files, and genre folders with craft guidance for fantasy, horror, literary fiction, mystery, romance and thriller. It produces guidance and analysis rather than finished prose or a production workflow.
When to use it
Use it when a writer, critic or muse needs craft guidance on how fiction works on the page rather than a drafting mode. It fits questions about prose technique, scene construction, style analysis or genre-specific craft. It is meant to be loaded selectively, one resource at a time, for the task at hand.
Requirements
No scripts or tools are required; it is an instructions-and-reference skill. The agent reads the bundled markdown resource files, loading only the one needed for the task.

Creative Writing Craft

How fiction works on the page: prose technique, scene mechanics, and style analysis. This is the how-to-write layer. /writing-principles carries the reader-reward model and failure-mode diagnostics; /creative-writing-modes carries the production modes for putting prose on the page.

Load only the resource needed for the task:

  • resources/prose-writing.md — psychic distance, free indirect discourse, rhythm, sensory grounding, interiority, POV.
  • resources/scene-construction.md — scene entry, dialogue, pacing, transitions.
  • resources/style-analysis.md — analyzing prose samples and producing style reference files.
  • resources/genre/ — genre-specific craft guidance when genre promise shapes the page.

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