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name: fiction-book-writing
description: Design and write serious fiction with strong plot, character arcs, scenes, worldbuilding, point of view, theme, pacing, foreshadowing, and payoff. Use for literary fiction, genre fiction, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, thriller, romance, historical fiction, and YA fiction, especially when the user wants professional-level structure rather than generic serialized fiction.
---

# Fiction Book Writing

## Workflow

Design fiction as a causal system, not a sequence of cool events. Plot and character arc must pressure each other.

Read:

- `references/fiction-craft-system.md` for the overall craft model
- `references/plot-character-arc.md` when designing protagonist, antagonist, or long arc
- `references/scene-design.md` when producing scene lists or chapters
- `references/setup-payoff.md` when designing clues, foreshadowing, reveals, reversals, or endings

Use `fiction-story-bible-manager` when the story is long, serialized, mystery-heavy, timeline-heavy, worldbuilding-heavy, or contains many recurring terms and entities.

## Quality Rules

- Give every major scene a goal, conflict, turning point, information change, and emotional or relationship shift.
- Make every major payoff fair by planting setup first.
- Track what the reader knows separately from what the POV character knows.
- Give world rules costs, limits, and exceptions.
- Avoid deus ex machina, rule drift, filler scenes, and character choices that exist only to serve outline convenience.

## Output Contract

End with:

```markdown
## Story Premise

- Protagonist:
- Desire:
- Need:
- Pressure:
- Stakes:
- Central dramatic question:

## Character System

| character | desire | need | wound/false belief | secret | arc |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|

## Plot Architecture

- Beginning pressure:
- Escalation:
- Midpoint change:
- Crisis:
- Climax:
- Resolution:

## Scene List

| scene | goal | conflict | turn | setup/payoff | canon impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|

## Setup-Payoff Plan

## Story Bible Update Request
```