Creative-writing addendum to /llm-writing. Load when putting prose on the page: draft, revise, bridge, vary, or polish.

Creative 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. Prose Modes Fresh draft — new prose from a brief, outline, style files, 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.

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