writing-beats

★ 143K repowritingSafeIntermediateClaude

🤖 AI Summary

**writing-beats** generates structured narrative beat sheets (scene-by-scene outlines) from a story premise or plot summary, outputting a formatted sequence of plot points with timing, character arcs, and conflict markers.

How to Install

Claude Code:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mattpocock/skills.git && cp skills/skills/in-progress/writing-beats ~/.claude/skills/writing-beats -r

Claude Code (Windows):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mattpocock/skills.git && xcopy skills\skills\in-progress\writing-beats %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\writing-beats\ /Y /E /I

Cursor:

Open SKILL.md on GitHub → copy all content → paste into your project root .cursorrules file

The user has passed (or will pass) a markdown file of raw material. If the user did not say where to save the article, ask once and remember the path. Then run a beat-by-beat journey: 1. Write 2–3 candidate **starting beats**, drawn from the raw material. Each is a different entry point into the article. Show the user the beats before writing it to the article file. The user picks one. Preview what beats that might lead to once written - as if the user is seeing a little way down th

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Details

Category	Content → writing
Source	mattpocock/skills
SKILL.md	View on GitHub →
Repo Stars	★ 143.3K
Est. per Skill	~3.2K (shared across 45 skills from this repo)
Difficulty	Intermediate
Risk Level	Safe