craft-extractionlisted

Extract transferable craft principles from close reading. After examining what a passage does, formalize the techniques into methods any writer can apply. Use whenever the user asks 'what can writers learn from this,' 'how do I do what this writer is doing,' 'give me the technique,' 'make this teachable,' 'extract the method,' 'what's the principle here,' 'turn this into a writing lesson,' or naturally after any deep close reading when the question shifts from what-is-happening-here to how-do-I-make-this-happen-in-my-own-work. Also triggers on: 'writing workshop,' 'craft lesson,' 'reverse engineer the technique,' 'what's the transferable principle,' 'how would you teach this.' Pairs with /close-reading — use close-reading first to examine the text, then craft-extraction to formalize the findings into portable methods.
Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library · ★ 4 · Data & Documents · score 75

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# /craft-extraction — The Transferable Principle ## Origin This skill emerged from a session that kept performing a double operation: first, close reading a Tolkien passage at the level of phoneme and punctuation; then, stepping back to ask "what can any writer learn from this?" The close reading was centripetal — moving toward the text's center. The extraction was centrifugal — moving outward toward general applicability. They're different cognitive operations. Both are essential. This skill formalizes the second. The session produced: seven principles for writing quiet exits (from the rustle simile), craft lessons on camera angles in fiction (from the garden and fireworks passages), principles of proportional attention and anaphora-as-trellis. Each set of principles was grounded in specific textual evidence and formulated as actionable method. --- ## Core Function Take the findings of close reading and formalize them into **transferable craft principles** that a writer could apply to their own work. The output should feel like the best kind of workshop handout: concrete, actionable, illustrated by the passage that generated it, but applicable well beyond that passage. Not "here's what Tolkien does" but "here's what you can do, learned from watching Tolkien do it." --- ## The Process ### 1. Start from Specifics Every principle must be grounded in a specific observation from the text. No principle without provenance. If you can't point to the sentence that taught y