What it is
Prose Critique helps writers improve their fiction drafts by identifying what doesn't work rather than confirming what does. It analyzes your writing across structure, character development, voice consistency, prose quality, and continuity — providing specific, actionable feedback tied to real reader experience. Whether you're working on an early draft or final polish, it adapts its focus to your stage and gives you the hard feedback you need to make your story stronger.
What it does
- Analyzes fiction drafts for plot logic, pacing issues, scene necessity, and stakes
- Evaluates character motivation, arc progression, and relationship dynamics for consistency
- Reviews voice quality, dialogue authenticity, POV discipline, and subtext
- Identifies line-level prose problems like rhythm, clarity, repetition, and show-vs-tell balance
- Checks continuity across facts, timeline, geography, and character states
Use it when
- You've finished a draft and need honest feedback on what's not working
- You're revising a novel or short story and want to focus on specific dimensions like character or pacing
- You need to know which structural issues to fix before polishing prose
- You want adversarial reading that challenges your assumptions rather than validates them
Add this skill to your AI
Copy the source URL and ask your AI to add it. Most coding agents — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Windsurf — will fetch and install it for you.
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Add this skill to my project: https://github.com/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/tree/main/skills/prose-critique