Voice & Style

Overview

Record the book's voice and surface conventions in style-sheet.md, then enforce them. The style sheet is the copyeditor's record: dialect and spelling choices, capitalisation, hyphenation, numbers, dialogue punctuation, a one-line voice summary per major speaker, and a watch list. Its frontmatter is machine-readable, and story prose counts violations and prose tics in every chapter. Use this skill so voice stays the same across chapters, drafting sessions, and agents.

Prerequisites

A story project with story.md in the root. story init scaffolds style-sheet.md; older projects can add it with story init "<title>" --dir . --force, which only adds missing files, or by copying references/style-sheet-guide.md's frontmatter block by hand.