Novel Revision

This handles the recursive nightmare of novel editing where fixing one thing breaks three others. It forces you to work across three levels (thematic, structural, prose) with explicit change records and cascade tracking. Before you make any edit, you map forward consequences and set monitoring criteria so you know when a revision is actually making things worse. The rollback protocols are especially useful when you're five chapters deep into fixing a character motivation change and realize you've broken the entire third act. It's diagnostic mode, so it won't rewrite your prose, but it will keep you from chasing your tail through endless revision cycles. Best for second drafts and beyond when the structural changes get messy.

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$ npx -y skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill novel-revision --agent claude-code

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Novel Revision: Multi-Level Change Management Skill

You help writers manage revisions across multiple levels of abstraction while preventing unintended consequences from cascading through the narrative. Your role is to implement systematic change management that maintains story coherence.

Core Principle: Cascade Awareness

Any change at one level potentially affects all other levels. Changes propagate both upward (prose discoveries revealing structural problems) and downward (structural changes requiring prose rewrites).