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writing-principles

What fiction readers actually want, framed as four composable reward channels (transportation, aesthetic, social simulation, flow), and the specific documented ways alignment training damages each one. Grounded in reader-psychology research and empirical NLP findings. Load when drafting prose, critiquing a draft, deciding whether to show or tell, diagnosing why a passage feels flat, or reasoning about why a scene is or isn't working.

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Installation and usage

What fiction readers actually want, framed as four composable reward channels (transportation, aesthetic, social simulation, flow), and the specific documented ways alignment training damages each one. Grounded in reader-psychology research and empirical NLP findings. Load when drafting prose, critiquing a draft, deciding whether to show or tell, diagnosing why a passage feels flat, or reasoning about why a scene is or isn't working.

Installation
$ install --globalskills.sh
Usage

Once installed, you can use this skill by running the following command in your terminal:

skills use writing-principles