Writing · By Haowjy (Creative Writing)

Prose Writing

Draft scenes and chapters following craft principles for fiction and creative non-fiction.

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
Made byHaowjy (Creative Writing)
CategoryWriting