book-writer
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Write full-length books — both non-fiction (textbooks, biographies, historical works, technical guides from "For Dummies"-style to AIMA-level academic, memoir, self-improvement, essay collections) and fiction (thrillers like Da Vinci Code, horror like Dracula, literary fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, romance). Every book is written through a fully-formed author persona (fictional for most genres; the real author for memoir) that can be saved and reused. The skill handles the full apparatus of a real book — figures with numbered captions, multiple citation styles (APA, Chicago, MLA, IEEE, plain), footnotes and endnotes, tables of contents, indexes, glossaries, bibliographies — plus the full book-production workflow including beta reader feedback rounds and adversarial fact-check passes. Use this skill whenever the user wants to write a book of dozens to hundreds of pages. Trigger phrases include "write me a full guide to", "I want to write a novel", "help me write a textbook on", "I'm working on a biography", "create a thriller about", "write my memoir", "a self-help book about", "a book in the style of [author]", or "create a writer persona". Do NOT use for short articles, blog posts, essays, single-chapter explainers, or short stories under 30 pages.
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- travsteward/openwritertheir own version, first seen Sep 21, 2026
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- travsteward/openwriter★ 36same name
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