Genre Conventions

This diagnostic tool identifies when your story's emotional promise doesn't match what you're delivering. It works through eight specific states like missing genre signals, secondary genres overwhelming primary ones, or confusing setting for genre. Built on the Writing Excuses framework of eleven elemental genres, it treats genre as an emotional contract rather than a bookshelf category. When readers feel confused about what kind of experience they're getting, or when your thriller keeps stopping for relationship beats that kill the tension, this maps the mismatch. The real value is the genre requirements reference that shows what mystery or horror or adventure actually needs to deliver on its promise.

Install to Claude Code

npx -y skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill genre-conventions --agent claude-code