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Novel Polish

by OpenLark · GitHub ↗ · v1.0.0 · MIT-0
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/install novel-polish
Description
Polish and refine novel text by improving language fluency, emotional expression, and vividness; strengthen story details and imagery; enhance dialogue authe...
README (SKILL.md)

Novel Polishing

Professionally polish novel text to enhance overall literary quality.

Use Cases

Use when users need to "polish a novel", "improve writing", or "refine prose".

Polishing Principles

1. Preserve Core, Strengthen Details

  • Retain the original story meaning and writing style; do not rewrite fundamentally
  • Enhance scene details for greater visual impact (sensory description, atmosphere, gestures and expressions)
  • Expand key plot points appropriately to increase emotional impact

2. Enhance Dialogue Authenticity

  • Character dialogue should match role identity, personality, and emotional state
  • Natural and conversational, avoiding overly literary language
  • Dialogue pacing should vary in intensity, paired with action and expression descriptions

3. Optimize Narrative Structure

  • Smooth paragraph transitions, avoiding abrupt jumps or breaks
  • Tense pacing: buildup → progression → climax → resolution
  • Trim verbose passages for a tighter narrative line

4. Refine Language

  • Remove repetitive phrasing and redundant modifiers
  • Replace "adverb + verb" combinations with precise verbs
  • Avoid clichés; pursue concise and elegant expression

Workflow

1. Receive Text

Read the novel passage provided by the user and confirm:

  • Whether full-text polishing or partial optimization is needed
  • Any special stylistic requirements (e.g., preserve a certain dialect or tone)

2. Execute Polishing

Process paragraph by paragraph, outputting for each:

  • Original: Mark key issues
  • Polished: Optimized text
  • Change Notes: Briefly describe what adjustments were made

3. Output Format

## Polishing Results

### Paragraph 1
**Original**
> [original content]

**Polished**
> [polished content]

**Change Notes**
- Optimized xxx
- Enhanced xxx

If the user requests the full text, provide the complete polished version at the end.

Notes

  • Do not change character names, place names, or core plot settings
  • Do not add plot elements or settings not present in the original
  • Preserve the original emotional tone and narrative perspective (first-person/third-person)
  • For sensitive content (violence, politics, etc.), only optimize language without altering the nature of the content
Usage Guidance
Safe to install for novel and fiction prose editing. Be aware it may activate on broad writing-improvement requests, so choose a more specific editing skill for academic, factual, legal, or non-fiction work if precision matters.
Capability Assessment
Purpose & Capability
The skill's stated purpose is to polish novel prose, and its instructions stay within language refinement, dialogue improvement, pacing, and preserving plot and character details.
Instruction Scope
The trigger phrase "improve writing" is broad and could route some non-novel editing requests to this skill, but the runtime instructions remain low-impact and text-editing focused.
Install Mechanism
The artifact contains only a single SKILL.md file; no install scripts, dependencies, package hooks, or executable components were present.
Credentials
The skill does not request filesystem, network, credential, account, or external tool access, which is proportionate for a prose-polishing assistant.
Persistence & Privilege
No persistence, background workers, privilege escalation, credential handling, or automatic writes are requested.
How to Use
  1. Make sure OpenClaw is installed (local or Docker)
  2. Run the install command in chat: /install novel-polish
  3. After installation, invoke the skill by name or use /novel-polish
  4. Provide required inputs per the skill's parameter spec and get structured output
Version History
v1.0.0
Initial release of novel-polish skill. - Provides professional polishing for novel text to enhance language fluency, emotional expression, and imagery. - Refines story details, dialogue authenticity, narrative pacing, and removes redundancy. - Offers structured output: original text, polished version, and change notes for each paragraph. - Preserves core plot, style, character, and setting while strengthening descriptive and emotional impact. - Supports both full-text and partial optimizations, with special stylistic considerations as needed.
Metadata
Slug novel-polish
Version 1.0.0
License MIT-0
All-time Installs 1
Active Installs 1
Total Versions 1
Frequently Asked Questions

What is Novel Polish?

Polish and refine novel text by improving language fluency, emotional expression, and vividness; strengthen story details and imagery; enhance dialogue authe... It is an AI Agent Skill for Claude Code / OpenClaw, with 46 downloads so far.

How do I install Novel Polish?

Run "/install novel-polish" in the OpenClaw or Claude Code chat to install it in one step — no extra setup required.

Is Novel Polish free?

Yes, Novel Polish is completely free, licensed under MIT-0. You can download, install and use it at no cost.

Which platforms does Novel Polish support?

Novel Polish is cross-platform and runs anywhere OpenClaw / Claude Code is available (cross-platform).

Who created Novel Polish?

It is built and maintained by OpenLark (@openlark); the current version is v1.0.0.

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