SKILL.md
Narrative Nonfiction Workshop
Workflow for self-help and prescriptive nonfiction using narrative elements and metaphors to guide reader transformation.
Core concept: Reader is protagonist; book is map and method; transformation is the contract.
Session Continuity
Book projects span weeks or months. Claude has no memory between sessions, so the project's blueprint document is your persistent state.
- At session start: Read
book-blueprint.md(or whatever the project calls its blueprint) before doing any other work. Skim recent files insessions/for unresolved threads. - At session end: Write a brief note at
sessions/YYYY-MM-DD_topic-slug.mdsummarizing what was done, decisions made, and the stopping point. Two to five sentences is enough. - When foundations shift: Update the blueprint immediately when promise, central metaphor, reader-arc stages, or reveal structure change. The blueprint is the source of truth, not a one-time template.
- Surface unresolved questions: At the start of new work, list questions left open from prior sessions and ask the user which to address before continuing.