Creative writing modes skill
Creative-writing addendum to /llm-writing.
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Creative Writing Modes
Load /llm-writing if it is not already loaded. This skill adds the
creative-writing layer for putting prose on the page: story pressure, voice,
rhythm, omission, ambiguity, genre promise, and reader simulation.
Use the smallest mode that fits the task. Read only the matching section in
resources/prose-modes.md unless the prompt explicitly asks for a hybrid pass.
Load style and character state before writing a character. If the request contradicts character state, write to the request, note the contradiction, and do not update character state.
Prose Modes
- Fresh draft — new prose from a brief, outline, style, character state, and canon.
- Revision — change an existing draft from author direction or critique.
- Bridge / connective tissue — connect scenes, compress time, or shift register.
- Alternate take — test a meaningfully different execution of the same beat.
- Line polish — improve rhythm, precision, and texture after structure settles.
Genre Resources
Genre is craft guidance, not a prose mode. When genre expectations shape the pass, load /creative-writing-craft and the relevant resource under resources/genre/ there.
Boundary
This is not a planning or review skill. Use /story-planning before there is a page to write.
Use /story-review, /reader-sim, and continuity checking when the page needs judgment. Return here when the next step is to write the prose.
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| 2 | name creative-writing-modes |
| 3 | description | |
| 4 | Creative-writing addendum to /llm-writing. Load when putting prose on the page: draft, revise, bridge, vary, or polish. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | |
| 7 | # Creative Writing Modes |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Load `/llm-writing` if it is not already loaded. This skill adds the |
| 10 | creative-writing layer for putting prose on the page: story pressure, voice, |
| 11 | rhythm, omission, ambiguity, genre promise, and reader simulation. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Use the smallest mode that fits the task. Read only the matching section in |
| 14 | `resources/prose-modes.md` unless the prompt explicitly asks for a hybrid pass. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | Load style and character state before writing a character. If the |
| 17 | request contradicts character state, write to the request, note the |
| 18 | contradiction, and do not update character state. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | ## Prose Modes |
| 21 | |
| 22 | **Fresh draft** — new prose from a brief, outline, style, character state, and canon. |
| 23 | **Revision** — change an existing draft from author direction or critique. |
| 24 | **Bridge / connective tissue** — connect scenes, compress time, or shift register. |
| 25 | **Alternate take** — test a meaningfully different execution of the same beat. |
| 26 | **Line polish** — improve rhythm, precision, and texture after structure settles. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | ## Genre Resources |
| 29 | |
| 30 | Genre is craft guidance, not a prose mode. When genre expectations shape the pass, load `/creative-writing-craft` and the relevant resource under `resources/genre/` there. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | ## Boundary |
| 33 | |
| 34 | This is not a planning or review skill. Use `/story-planning` before there is a page to write. |
| 35 | Use `/story-review`, `/reader-sim`, and continuity checking when the page needs judgment. Return here when the next step is to write the prose. |
| 36 |
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