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@@ -31,6 +31,15 @@ Fiction-only companion to Fiction Workshop's character work. Two taxonomies plus
Archetype is a starting scaffold, not a finished character — pair with Fiction Workshop's Want/Need/Wound/Lie framework to individualize.
### Story Structure
Percentage-anchored macro plot structure, drawn from K.M. Weiland's landmark-beat model and James Scott Bell's signpost catalog:
- **Landmark Beats** - 11-beat skeleton (Hook, Inciting Event, First Plot Point, Pinch Points, Midpoint, Third Plot Point, Climax, Resolution) with percentages and diagnostics
- **Signposts** - Bell's 14 named checkpoints (Disturbance, Mirror Moment, Doorways of No Return, Q Factor, and more), overlaid on the landmarks or placed relatively between them
- **Map** - Place beats and signposts for a story not yet drafted
- **Audit** - Locate where beats actually land in an existing manuscript and flag missing, mistimed, or thin ones
Weiland's beats answer *where* a turning point falls; Bell's signposts answer *what psychological work* it needs to do.
### Narrative Nonfiction
For self-help, prescriptive nonfiction, and structural-argument books with storytelling elements:
- **Transformation Arc** - Reader journey design
@@ -91,6 +100,7 @@ Invoke skills directly:
```bash
/author-toolkit:fiction-workshop
/author-toolkit:character-archetypes
/author-toolkit:story-structure
/author-toolkit:narrative-nonfiction
/author-toolkit:prose-mechanics
/author-toolkit:avoid-ai-writing
@@ -110,6 +120,11 @@ Once activated, work with the editorial personas:
"Check archetype conformance for chapters 4-8"
"Run an ensemble balance check on the cast"
# Story structure
"Map the structure for this story"
"Audit this manuscript's structure"
"Check this manuscript for a Faux Climax"
# Nonfiction
"Help me design the transformation arc for my self-help book"
"Check metaphor consistency in chapters 4-8"
@@ -139,6 +154,8 @@ Once activated, work with the editorial personas:
| Archetype cliché check | `/author-toolkit:character-archetypes` | "Audit [scene] for archetype cliché" |
| Archetype drift check | `/author-toolkit:character-archetypes` | "Check archetype conformance for chapters [X-Y]" |
| Cast balance check | `/author-toolkit:character-archetypes` | "Run an ensemble balance check on the cast" |
| Plan new story structure | `/author-toolkit:story-structure` | "Map the structure for this story" |
| Audit existing structure | `/author-toolkit:story-structure` | "Audit this manuscript's structure" |
| Nonfiction writing | `/author-toolkit:narrative-nonfiction` | "Let's build a blueprint for [book]" |
| Reader journey | `/author-toolkit:narrative-nonfiction` | "Design the transformation arc" |
| Metaphor consistency | `/author-toolkit:narrative-nonfiction` | "Check metaphor consistency in chapters 4-8" |