# Story Planning

Planning work before prose: creative direction, story-planning, outlining, and story...

- Repository: https://github.com/haowjy/creative-writing-skills (556 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last updated: 2026-10-28
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill story-planning -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill story-planning -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill story-planning -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill story-planning -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add haowjy/creative-writing-skills`

## Description

Planning work before prose: creative direction, story-planning, outlining, and story architecture. Load when deciding what should happen or how a story should be structured.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Story Planning

Use this for pre-page decisions: what the story wants, what options exist, and how chosen direction becomes outline structure. Do not use it for production prose or critique.

Load only the resource needed:

- `resources/creative-direction.md`, author-facing direction and option synthesis.
- `resources/brainstorming.md`, exploratory capture, source tagging, and the brainstorm report.
- `resources/story-architecture.md`, arc, chapter, scene, and beat structure.
- `resources/story-architecture/chapter-and-scene.md`, writing an outline: what each beat carries.