Novel Writing

A Codex skill for fiction planning, chapter drafting, scene continuation, and revision that stays concrete about narrative problems instead of giving vague workshop-style feedback.

Why Use It

This skill is meant for longform fiction work where narrative judgment matters.

It helps Codex:

• plan chapters and scenes with actual narrative function
• draft or continue fiction prose without collapsing everything into summary
• review prose with concrete findings instead of soft impressions
• protect style-bearing material during revision
• check whether scenes obey realism and access limits

Good Fit

Use this repo when the task is mainly about fiction craft:

• chapter or scene planning
• prose continuation
• rewrite while preserving voice
• structural review of a chapter
• character introduction quality
• realism constraints inside a scene

If your main problem is project recovery, chapter-state tracking, or workspace governance across a large novel, use novel-project-strategy alongside this skill.

Example Prompts

• Use novel-writing. Review this chapter and give concrete findings with locations, not vague feedback.
• Plan a chapter that introduces the rival clearly and moves the relationship forward.
• Continue this scene without flattening the author's voice or cutting style-bearing detail.

Install

Manual install:

git clone https://github.com/wgwtest/novel-writing.git
mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills
cp -R novel-writing/novel-writing ~/.codex/skills/novel-writing

For local development with easy upgrades:

git clone https://github.com/wgwtest/novel-writing.git
mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills
ln -s "$(pwd)/novel-writing/novel-writing" ~/.codex/skills/novel-writing

Restart Codex after installing or updating the skill.

Installer-style inputs:

• repo: wgwtest/novel-writing
• path: novel-writing

Repository Layout

• novel-writing/: installable skill package
• README.md: landing page for humans
• .github/: templates for issues and pull requests

The installable skill lives in a subdirectory so the repository root can hold public-facing files without leaking extra repo metadata into the package.

Related Repos

• novel-project-strategy: longform fiction workflow, reload order, chapter-state, and sync discipline
• project-engineering-strategy: engineering workflow governance for code projects

Contributing

If you want to improve the skill, start with CONTRIBUTING.md. The highest-value contributions are better prompts, cleaner narrative diagnostics, and sharper boundaries around when this skill should or should not fire.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

Maintainer Note

This public repository is synced from a separate source-of-truth workspace. Keep the root landing files and the installable package aligned in the same release.