What it is
This skill teaches AI how to write immersive fiction and creative non-fiction at the sentence and paragraph level. It covers techniques like psychic distance, free indirect discourse, rhythm, and sensory grounding — the craft patterns that pull readers into a story. Writers working on novels, short stories, memoirs, or narrative essays use this to ensure their prose feels vivid and emotionally resonant, not flat or generic.
What it does
- Controls psychic distance to create intimacy or context depending on the scene
- Uses free indirect discourse so third-person narration carries the character's voice
- Varies sentence rhythm to match emotional intensity and pacing
- Grounds scenes in specific sensory details filtered through the POV character
- Shows character states through action and behavior instead of labeling emotions
Use it when
- You're drafting or revising fiction and the prose feels flat or generic
- You need emotional scenes to feel intimate and high-stakes scenes to feel tense
- You're writing creative non-fiction or memoir and want vivid, immersive storytelling
- You want AI to write in a character's voice, not just report what happened
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.
Try this prompt:
Add this skill to my project: https://github.com/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/tree/main/skills/prose-writing