WriteStory

🚨 MANDATORY: Voice Notification (REQUIRED BEFORE ANY ACTION)

You MUST send this notification BEFORE doing anything else when this skill is invoked.

1. Send voice notification:

   curl -s -X POST http://localhost:31337/notify \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"message": "Running the WORKFLOWNAME workflow in the WriteStory skill to ACTION"}' \
     > /dev/null 2>&1 &
   

2. Output text notification:

   Running the **WorkflowName** workflow in the **WriteStory** skill to ACTION...
   

This is not optional. Execute this curl command immediately upon skill invocation.

WriteStory

What It Does

WriteStory is scaffolding for writing fiction. It takes what you already have — a sentence, a folder of notes, a half-drafted chapter — and helps you build the rest of the story one layer at a time, using the systems professional storytellers use on purpose. You bring the creativity; it fills in the pieces you're missing. It never writes the story for you.

The Problem

Most people who want to write a story never finish one. The spark is there — a character who won't leave you alone, a world you can picture but can't map, an ending that gives you chills — but between that spark and a finished draft are the hard parts: structure, the character's hidden wound, the theme you can feel but can't name, the sentences that should land but don't. The usual tools either leave you alone with those gaps, or they write the story for you and hand back something that isn't yours. WriteStory fills the gaps without taking the story away from you.

How It Works

The work happens across seven narrative layers, and each book you write is a stateful project the system can come back to and keep building.

The Seven Layers

Every story here is built across seven layers at once:

1. Meaning — Theme, the argument the story makes, the question it asks
2. Character Change — Sacred flaw / misbelief → transformation (Storr, Cron)
3. Plot — The cause-and-effect chain of events
4. Mystery — What the reader knows vs. doesn't, and when
5. World — Setting, politics, rules, the pressure the world puts on people
6. Relationships — How the key bonds evolve and squeeze the characters
7. Prose — Rhetorical figures, voice, aesthetic, style