novel-writer-workflow-guide
Use when user starts a novel project or asks how to organize their writing - guides through novel-writer's seven-step methodology and ensures proper workflow
Security Assessment
About novel-writer-workflow-guide
The novel-writer-workflow-guide skill guides a writer through novel-writer's seven-step, spec-driven creative methodology, ensuring the workflow is followed rather than jumping straight into prose. It activates when a user starts a novel project or asks how to organize their writing.
The seven steps are /constitution (creative principles), /specify (story specification), /clarify (resolve ambiguities with targeted questions), /plan (chapter structure and technical approach), /tasks (break work into prioritized tasks), /write (AI-assisted chapter writing), and /analyze (quality validation). The guide explains the purpose, contents, and typical duration of each step, scales the process for short, medium, and long works, gently redirects users who try to skip planning, and shows how genre and craft skills (romance, mystery, dialogue, scene structure, and consistency checking) auto-activate during specification and writing. It also offers progress tracking and example cadences such as high-productivity and sprint (NaNoWriMo) modes.
It is most useful for writers beginning a novel who want a structured, repeatable framework that keeps the story consistent and treats the spec and plan as the project's source of truth.
FAQ
When does this skill activate?
When a user says they want to write a novel or asks how to organize their writing project.
What are the seven steps?
/constitution, /specify, /clarify, /plan, /tasks, /write, and /analyze.
Can I skip steps?
Yes, but some depend on others (for example /write needs /specify and /plan); the guide recommends a minimum of /constitution, /specify, and /write and gently warns when planning is skipped.
Does it scale to different novel sizes?
Yes. It offers a simplified flow for short stories, the full seven steps for medium novels, and a repeating plan, tasks, write, and analyze loop for long serials.
How do other skills fit in?
Genre skills (romance, mystery, fantasy) and craft skills (dialogue, scene structure, consistency checker) auto-activate based on context during specification and writing.
Install novel-writer-workflow-guide
Quick Setup:
- Copy the skill folder to
.claude/skills/ - Claude will automatically detect and use the skill
Repository
wordflowlab/novel-writer-skills