Write story chapters from an approved outline

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Installnpx skills add danjdewhurst/story-skills --skill chapter-writing

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Overview

This skill writes fiction chapters in an outline-first order. It gathers context for the chapter with a story command-line tool that keeps later chapters out and stays within a token budget, builds a scene-by-scene outline for your approval, and only then writes the full prose. Afterward it records scene dates, continuity state and setups planted or paid off, and rebuilds the project's registries. It expects a story bible plus a character file or more, and ideally a plot structure, and it passes line editing to a companion skill.

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