haowjy/creative-writing-skills
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1Writing Principleswriting-principles packages evidence-based creative-writing guidance from the haowjy/creative-writing-skills repo, anchored in peer-reviewed work on transportation, reading flow, and social cognition rather than generic style tips. Solo builders shipping landing narratives, email sequences, founder stories, or interactive fiction can use it when copy must hold attention and feel human. The skill emphasizes measurable constructs from consumer and psychology research and flags where replication is contested, which helps indie teams avoid myth-driven writing advice. It pairs well with content planning in Validate and distribution work in Launch while living primarily on the Grow content shelf.581installs2Writing StaffingWriting-staffing is a creative-writing orchestration skill that explains which specialized agents should own which artifacts in a fiction or long-form pipeline. Instead of asking one general assistant to improvise an entire novel, you treat prose as production: the outliner structures arcs, chapters, and beats (often with mermaid maps), then a dedicated writer turns scene briefs into drafts grounded in style files and continuity anchors. The skill stresses operational discipline—parallel writers on the same scene degrade voice, so staffing is one writer per scene or chapter, with output always staged as draft material for critique and revision rather than publish-ready copy. Writers can run autonomously into a drafts directory or interactively when you want to co-write passages. For solo builders shipping newsletters, game lore, or indie fiction as part of their brand, this pattern mirrors how software teams separate planning from implementation: structure first, execution second, quality gates last.446installs3Llm Writingllm-writing is a journey-wide agent skill for solo builders who publish specs, landing copy, newsletters, and product docs with Claude Code or similar agents. It does not replace voice or strategy; it makes you notice when the model fills structure without purpose, summarizes with labels instead of mechanisms, states conclusions without evidence, smooths uncertainty, encodes fixes as brittle prohibitions, or restates the last paragraph as a fake transition. A dedicated section on conversational bleed catches documents written like chat replies—correcting misconceptions the reader never had or inviting them to “break something down” when no question was asked. The skill tells the agent to load intent-modeling first so revisions stay tied to audience and intent rather than generic “sounding professional.” Use it whenever a written artifact is meant for a reader who was not in your session, from validate landing pages through launch SEO posts and grow lifecycle emails.402installs4Project SetupProject Setup is an agent skill for solo fiction and serial authors who want Claude Code (or similar agents) to respect their voice, world, and folder habits from day one. Instead of repeating context in every chat, the skill runs a structured interview: project shape, progress, POV and timeline complexity, and where files already live. It gathers writing samples into kb/samples/, outlines a knowledge-base layout, and writes CLAUDE.md so every future creative-writing skill in the repo shares the same rules. When samples are sufficient, it can kick off style-analysis to seed kb/styles/. Use it once at project start or when migrating a messy draft tree into an agent-friendly structure—before heavy drafting, revision, or continuity checks.268installs5Kb ManagementKB Management is an agent skill for creative-writing projects that use a shared `kb/` directory as durable story memory. Solo builders and small writing teams install it when finalized chapters, character arcs, or world rules need to be captured as canon and synthesized into wiki pages every downstream agent can read. It explains how canon differs from living wiki reference, how style files anchor voice for writer and critic agents, how vocabulary and aliases stay consistent project-wide and per domain, and when to track multi-chapter issues elsewhere. The skill emphasizes one concept per document, splitting overloaded pages, and merging duplicate explanations so context windows stay focused. It is not a generic markdown linter—it is procedural knowledge for long-form narrative workflows where contradiction breaks reader trust. Use it whenever you promote draft facts to canon, refactor kb structure, or onboard new agents to an existing story bible.266installs6Grill With DocsGrill With Docs is an agent skill for solo and indie builders who have a plan or proposed direction but need it challenged against what is already documented. It interviews you relentlessly, resolving decision branches in dependency order so downstream choices are not built on vague language or unstated assumptions. Each exchange targets the next unresolved branch (or a tight cluster of related questions), includes a recommended answer, and waits for your reply—so you can run it in short sessions without losing thread. Terminology is checked against project vocabulary pages, CLAUDE.md conventions, active work notes, and prior decisions so new labels do not collide with established meaning. Invoke it when you want plan review that is sharper than a casual critique but lighter than a full formal spec process—especially before implementation plans, architecture choices, or narrative/product directions where words like “MVP,” “platform,” or domain terms are overloaded.265installs7Intent ModelingIntent Modeling is a journey-wide creative-writing and agent discipline skill that tells the model to understand author intent before obeying surface instructions. Solo builders hit failure modes when agents comply literally—“stop doing X” might mean rebalance toward Y—and when helpfulness overrides the actual ask. The skill instructs reading context, asking clarifying questions when ambiguous, and scanning for the same systematic misreading elsewhere once one slip is found. Use it whenever you delegate nuanced creative, product, or refactor work to an agent, not only at the start of a novel chapter. It pairs naturally with planning and brainstorming skills because approved intent should precede large implementation or rewrite passes. It does not replace explicit specs: when requirements are already signed off and unambiguous, extra intent parsing adds little. The payoff is fewer round trips and edits that match the outcome you wanted, not the cheapest interpretation of your last message.264installs8Shared Daoshared-dao is a journey-wide creative-writing agent skill that establishes shared vocabulary between author intent and agent behavior. Solo novelists and serial fiction builders use it when magic systems get renamed, factions blur, or genre labels mean different things in different prompts—problems that corrupt drafts before structure is solid. The skill teaches where terms belong at the lowest shared scope: whole-project vocab in kb/vocab.md, domain-specific terms under kb/worldbuilding or factions, and provisional naming in work/ until promoted. It pushes aggressive scrutiny of important terms: reuse when names already fit, converge on one name per concept, and flag when only the author can judge. It is not a plot generator; it is the dao—the contract—that keeps retrieval and drafting aligned. Load it when establishing canon, resolving ambiguous names, or auditing consistency across kb/ before long agent-assisted writing sessions.263installs9Creative Writing Skillscreative-writing-skills is an AI coding tool that enhances development workflows. Developers use it for infrastructure, integration, and platform development within the catalog ecosystem.0installs