fiction-workshop

Fiction Workshop is an editorial-workflow skill for writing and editing long-form fiction such as novels, novellas, and short-story collections. It solves a core problem of book-length collaboration with an AI: the assistant has no memory between sessions, so continuity, character voice, and world rules drift. The skill's answer is a persistent Story Bible that acts as the project's source of truth, plus a session-notes convention that records decisions and stopping points between working sessions.

The workflow runs in three stages: Story Bible Building (establishing genre, premise, protagonist want/need/wound/arc, conflict, world, and theme), Chapter Development, and Reader Testing. It layers on five editorial personas the user can invoke on demand: Developmental Editor (plot, pacing, structure, stakes, theme), Line Editor (prose rhythm, word choice, show-don't-tell), Character Consultant (voice, motivation, arcs), Continuity Tracker (timeline, world facts, consistency), and Brainstorm Partner (what-if exploration and unsticking). Each persona has a dedicated reference file that is loaded only when that lens is active, to conserve context. Supporting assets include a story-bible template and a scene worksheet, and genre-specific references for science-fiction worldbuilding and thriller craft. The continuity reference is especially detailed, cataloguing physical, timeline, character-knowledge, and world-rule continuity, red-flag patterns, and single-chapter, multi-chapter, and full-manuscript audit processes.

The target users are novelists and fiction writers running multi-chapter projects that need character and plot consistency. The skill explicitly excludes flash fiction and single scenes under 2000 words, poetry, screenplays, technical or academic writing, and business copy, pointing narrative-nonfiction users to a separate skill. It is pure writing-craft guidance with no code or external tooling.