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discovery-drafting
This skill should be used when the user asks about "pantsing", "discovery write", "write without an outline", "discovery draft", "write into the dark", "story kernel", "reconcile a chapter", "dead end", "drafting sprint", "writing cadence", or wants to draft a story by discovery with retrospective bible reconciliation. NOT for outline-first drafting, or mysteries and other clue-dependent genres where setup must come before payoff (use chapter-writing), or a reverse outline of an existing linear draft, a subplot cut, or another revision pass on existing chapters (use revision-continuity).
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# Discovery Drafting
## Overview
Draft by discovery ("pantsing"): start from a one-paragraph story kernel
rather than a beat sheet, write forward, then reconcile each chapter back
into the story bible through a structured loop (extract entities → reverse
outline → diff against the bible → reconcile). This is the complement to
chapter-writing's outline-first workflow. The bible is maintained *after*
the prose, not before — which the repo's import-style entity extraction and
continuity checks already support.
## Prerequisites