About creative-writing-modes
A creative-writing skill for drafting, revising, connecting, or polishing prose, with guidance on voice, rhythm, ambiguity, genre, and reader perspective. It selects a writing mode for the task and keeps planning and review work outside its scope.
Key features
- 01Fresh draft and revision modes
- 02Bridge scenes and alternate takes
- 03Line-level rhythm and texture polish
- 04Genre-aware prose guidance
- 05Character-state and canon awareness
Use cases
- 01Draft prose from an outline and character state
- 02Revise a scene based on author direction
- 03Connect scenes or compress elapsed time
- 04Polish prose after structural edits
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
npx skills add https:/After installing, type/creative-writing-modesin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Bundled filesresources/prose-modes.md
Details
From the project READMECreative 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.