creative-writinglisted

# Creative Writing Creative writing rewards specificity, restraint, and revision. The first draft exists to find the story; every draft after exists to remove what isn't it. This skill complements `docs/the-longform-guide.md` (long-form discipline) and `docs/the-shortform-guide.md` (short-form punch). ## When to Activate - Drafting fiction (short story, novel chapter, flash) - Personal essays, memoir, narrative non-fiction - Revising scenes for voice / pacing / POV - Choosing between outlining vs discovery drafting - Korean <-> English literary writing (translation, original in either) ## Voice First Voice = diction + rhythm + the things the narrator notices. - **Diction**: word range. A narrator who says "luminous" doesn't say "fancy" in the next paragraph unless the contrast is the point. - **Rhythm**: sentence length variance. Short. Then a long one that builds through subordinate clauses to a turn at the end. Then short again. - **Attention**: what the narrator points the camera at. The detail you choose is the character. If the voice doesn't feel found, write 500 words in first person about a meal, a commute, a fight you remember. Voice surfaces in low-stakes scenes faster than in plotted ones. ## Scene-Level Checklist A scene that's working has all five: 1. **POV is consistent** — pick a head, stay in it. POV slips happen at moments of dramatic tension; that's where the writer wants to cheat. 2. **The viewpoint character has a desire in the scene** (n