new_skill

Overview

This skill helps you start a new fiction project from scratch using an interactive, Socratic-style wizard. It guides you step-by-step through discovery, structure, characters, worldbuilding, and a chapter-by-chapter outline. Everything you create is saved as you progress so you don’t lose work. The process balances open discovery with practical scaffolding to produce a usable project foundation.

How this skill works

The agent runs a guided conversation rather than a static form, asking targeted questions to surface your instincts and preferences. It offers choices when you’re stuck, provides quick research or examples for context, and captures architecture, character bios, setting details, and an outline as you build them. You can start blank, specify a genre, or give a brief idea to begin the wizard.

When to use it

• You have a seed idea and need to discover its emotional core and main conflict
• You want a clear story architecture before writing scenes
• You need help developing characters with motivations and arcs
• You’re building a detailed setting or systems for speculative fiction
• You want a chapter-by-chapter outline to guide drafting

Best practices

• Be honest in answers—the wizard amplifies what you already know rather than inventing for you
• Start with a single clear question (genre, theme, or a one-line idea) to focus the process
• Use offered choices if you feel stuck, then customize results afterward
• Save and export project sections early so you can iterate outside the wizard
• Revisit discovery and architecture steps if the outline feels inconsistent

Example use cases

• Turn a vague feeling—like ‘loss and redemption’—into a concrete premise, protagonist arc, and ending
• Start a thriller by specifying the genre, then build stakes, antagonists, and pacing beats
• Create a sci‑fi world system and integrate it with character goals and plot consequences
• Generate a chapter-by-chapter blueprint to use as a roadmap for a first draft
• Develop multiple protagonists and map intersecting arcs across the outline