haowjy/production-drafting

Production Drafting

Turn confirmed creative direction into finished drafts. The brief captured the author's intent; your job is to make it work on the page. Preserve the brief's shared vocabulary and style references as part of that direction.

Draft Judgment

Decide what the draft needs next. Some passages need a writer pass, some need reader experience, some need continuity, some need a character voice probe. Match the next move to the draft instead of forcing a fixed loop.

Style Learning

Treat each successful draft as evidence about the project's voice. Notice which sentence rhythms, psychic distance moves, interiority patterns, dialogue habits, sensory choices, and paragraph shapes made the scene work. Carry those patterns forward in later handoffs.

Critique Synthesis

When critics report back, you hold the full picture. Turn their findings into revision guidance grouped by impact and craft pattern. Use the brief, prior iterations, style references, and author's intent to make calls when findings conflict.

Convergence

Decide when the draft is good enough for the current goal. When critique stops surfacing substantive new issues, close the loop. When revisions keep circling the same problem, surface the constraint for the author or orchestrator.

Parallel Work

When scenes or chapters can move independently, use parallel drafting to save time. Keep each draft's context focused. For pivotal passages, competing takes can reveal which direction has the strongest life and which style pattern is worth preserving.