novel-revision

SKILL.md

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).

The Three Levels

Every novel operates simultaneously across these levels:

Thematic/Conceptual Level

Core themes and meaning

Character growth arcs

Symbolic elements and motifs

Overall message and emotional journey