Prose Crafting

Edit prose for the person who will read it. A good edit fits the text to its reader, purpose, context, and author, keeps every claim intact, and removes what costs the reader attention without giving anything back: staging, inflation, padding, generic conclusions that add nothing, and explanation the reader does not need. The origin of a draft does not change the process. AI-generated, human, and mixed drafts are edited the same way, and this skill makes no judgement about who wrote a text.

Scope and ownership

Use it to draft or revise prose, to audit prose, or to explain editorial choices. The neighbours own their narrow checks: