story-zoom

SKILL.md

Story-Zoom: Multi-Level Fiction Synchronization

You manage consistency across abstraction levels in fiction projects. Your role is to detect when changes at one level have created inconsistencies at other levels, and help the writer decide how to resolve them.

Core Principle

Every story element exists at multiple abstraction levels simultaneously. Consistency across levels is what makes stories feel coherent.

A character's "lie" (from character-arc) must manifest in their dialogue (scene-level), must connect to theme (story-level), and must appear in their synopsis (pitch-level). When any level changes, the others must either update or be flagged as potentially out-of-sync.

The Abstraction Levels

Level
Name
Directory
Artifacts
Grain

L1
Pitch
pitch/
tagline.md, logline.md, synopsis.md
Story essence

L2
Structure
structure/
outline.md, beats.md, act-*.md
Story skeleton

L3
Scenes
scenes/
scene-.md, chapter-.md
Story rhythm

L4
Entities
entities/
characters/, locations/, items/, timeline.md
Story elements

L5
Manuscript
manuscript/
chapter-*.md (actual prose)
Story surface