Writing Principles

Loads the fiction layer on top of the base LLM writing guidance. The core insight is that your helpfulness training actively works against fiction craft: you want to explain emotions, resolve tension, and clarify subtext, but readers get reward from doing that interpretive work themselves. It maps four reward channels (transportation, aesthetic, social simulation, flow) and diagnoses why passages feel flat by checking which channel broke. Includes a punctuation tells section warning against em dashes as AI residue. The failure modes doc has fix patterns for common issues. Use this when drafting prose, critiquing scenes, or figuring out why something reads as overexplained despite technically correct writing.

Install to Claude Code

npx -y skills add haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill writing-principles --agent claude-code