/creative-writing-craft
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.
$ npx -y skills add haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill creative-writing-craft --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/creative-writing-craft
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The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.
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.
SKILL.md
creative-writing-craft.SKILL.mdname: creative-writing-craft type: reference description: > 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. model-invocable: true
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.
Write novels, short stories, and serial fiction with AI that maintains your voice, tracks your continuity, and gets better the more you use it.
Other skills on creative-writing-skills.
- /character-sim
Speak as a specified character from their current knowledge, voice, and emotional state. Use for skill-only workflows that need in-character conversation, voice discovery, or relationship pressure tests.
Open skill - /creative-research
Load when a story needs factual grounding the writer doesn't have: historical detail, cultural texture, domain accuracy, or how other authors handled similar material. Pass the question and story context; returns a sourced report the writer can draw from.
Open skill - /creative-writing-modes
Creative-writing addendum to /llm-writing. Load when putting prose on the page: draft, revise, bridge, vary, or polish.
Open skill - /creative-writing-muse
Load when no subagents are available and one agent must plan, draft, critique, research, and capture memory by switching stances.
Open skill - /grill-with-docs
Use when challenging a plan — grills the author against documented decisions and sharpens terminology.
Open skill - /information-hierarchy
Load for large human-facing outputs: reports, docs, multi-section explanations, artifacts. Choose the right form for each beat (prose, diagram, table, mockup) and put the answer first, depth behind it. If the medium allows, use progressive disclosure.
Open skill