creative-writing-skill
This AI skill transforms AI assistants like Claude into interactive creative writing partners. It is based on René Nekuda's writing course and offers 12 writing principles. The skill guides users through the creative process by discovering intent, building a story skeleton, drafting a first draft, iterative feedback, and reviewing existing text, helping to generate high-quality, cliché-free, and richly detailed works.
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1 组Traditional AI writing assistants often generate text in a single pass, lacking interaction and structured guidance, which can result in output that is generic, lacks depth, or doesn't meet expectations.
With this skill, AI becomes an interactive writing partner, guiding ideation, structuring content, and iterating on revisions, significantly improving creative quality and writing workflow efficiency.
description SKILL.md
Creative Writing Skill
A creative writing assistant skill for Claude Code and other AI agents following the Agent Skills specification.
Based on René Nekuda's course "Základy tvůrčího psaní" (Creative Writing Fundamentals) — 12 lessons covering the foundations of the writing craft, distilled into actionable principles and an interactive workflow.
Install
npx skills add pavelkudrna83/creative-writing-skill
Or manually copy skills/creative-writing/SKILL.md to your ~/.claude/skills/creative-writing/ directory.
What it does
This skill transforms Claude from a one-shot text generator into an interactive writing partner. Instead of immediately producing text, it guides you through the creative process:
- Discovers your intent — asks about what you want to write, for whom, and what feeling it should leave
- Builds a story skeleton — hero, antagonist, conflict, setting, tone
- Writes a first draft — applying craft principles (no clichés, specific details, varied pacing)
- Iterates with you — refines based on your feedback
- Reviews existing text — structured feedback using a checklist of 9 writing principles
Principles covered
| # | Principle | Key idea |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beginnings | Every detail must relate to the story — no superfluous information |
| 2 | Clarity | The reader doesn't have the context in your head |
| 3 | Clichés | Replace in narrator's voice, keep in dialogue for authenticity |
| 4 | Details | Specific > generic; one good detail beats three vague ones |
| 5 | Characters | Define hero + antagonist (antagonist doesn't have to be a person) |
| 6 | Conflicts | The engine of every story — must relate to the hero/antagonist pair |
| 7 | Consistency | Track physical traits, names, world rules across the text |
| 8 | Writer type | Pantser vs. plotter — neither is better, both need revision |
| 9 | Dialogue vs. description | Alternate pacing — dialogue for speed, description for atmosphere |
| 10 | The art of selection | You can't describe everything — pick the best representative details |
Work modes
| You come with... | Skill starts from... |
|---|---|
| "Write me a story about X" | Step 1 — discover intent |
| An outline or idea | Step 2 — build skeleton |
| Source material (article, notes) | Step 1 — find out what you want, then Step 3 |
| A finished text for review | Step 5 — structured revision |
| "Help me with this scene" | Step 3 — write, but ask about context |
Source
Extracted from 12 video lessons of Základy tvůrčího psaní by René Nekuda. Audio was downloaded, transcribed via OpenAI Whisper API, and synthesized into this skill.
License
MIT
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