# Story Review

Review work after prose exists: editorial review, craft critique, continuity/voice...

- Repository: https://github.com/haowjy/creative-writing-skills (556 stars)
- Category: Media
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last updated: 2026-10-28
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

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

## Description

Review work after prose exists: editorial review, craft critique, continuity/voice review, copyediting, proofreading, and synthesis of reader-sim signal. Load when diagnosing a draft rather than rewriting it.

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

# Story Review

Analytical review of existing prose. This skill is for diagnosis, not
rewriting. Keep `/creative-writing-skills:reader-sim` separate when the task needs a felt first-time
reader experience rather than analytical critique.

Choose the review level before reading. Start big before small unless the
caller explicitly asks for a late-stage pass. The edit levels move from
structural to surface, and each assumes the levels above it are stable:

- **Editorial review**, holistic third-party book-editor pass. What kind of
  revision does this draft need, and in what order?
- **Developmental edit**, structure, promise, causality, pacing, character
  arc. Is the draft the right shape?
- **Line edit**, voice, rhythm, clarity, texture. Does the prose move well?
- **Copyedit**, grammar, usage, punctuation, consistency. Is it correct?
- **Proofreading**, final surface pass. What slipped through?

Each level has a dedicated resource with method and checklist:

- `resources/editorial-review.md`
- `resources/developmental-edit.md`
- `resources/line-edit.md`
- `resources/copyedit.md`
- `resources/proofreading.md`

For adversarial craft critique (as opposed to editorial review), load:

- `resources/prose-critique.md`, methodology and focus-area routing.
- `resources/prose-critique/`, deep resources per focus area (structure,
  character, voice, prose, continuity).

When review incorporates reader-sim data:

- `resources/reader-sim-signal.md`, how to interpret and synthesize
  reader-sim output alongside analytical critique.