Fiction adaptation
When to use
Use for changing the medium or scope of an existing story, especially converting prose into visual scripts.
Inputs and assumptions
Read the source, identify its status and permitted use, confirm destination format, language, budget, and elements that must remain unchanged.
Portable workflow
- Identify the source's essential events, motives, information sequence, and emotional turns.
- Read format guidance for both source and destination.
- Map each essential beat to the destination's tools. Prose interiority may become action, silence, imagery, dialogue, or captions.
- Propose cuts, mergers, or order changes before making changes that alter the story's meaning.
- Draft the adaptation to a new file, keeping the source intact.
- Check pacing and readability in the destination medium rather than preserving source paragraph boundaries.
- Provide a brief change map and update progress under the project workflow.
Safety and side effects
Do not assume permission to publish or distribute supplied material. No image generation, external upload, or source replacement is automatic.
Scripts, references, and dependencies
No rendering services required. Use the manga skill for panels and scroll beats, or prose guidance for a prose destination.
Verification
Trace essential causal and emotional beats to the adaptation. Check the requested page, episode, or word budget and disclose deliberate omissions.
Pi adapter
Use /writer adapt --target "chapters/chapter-0001.md" --format manga --brief "A 20-page episode with two silent pages".
1---2name: writer-adaptation3description: Adapt fiction between novels, light novels, serial prose, manga, and webtoon scripts while preserving causal and emotional progression and documenting necessary changes.4license: MIT5---67# Fiction adaptation89## When to use1011Use for changing the medium or scope of an existing story, especially converting prose into visual scripts.1213## Inputs and assumptions1415Read the source, identify its status and permitted use, confirm destination format, language, budget, and elements that must remain unchanged.1617## Portable workflow18191. Identify the source's essential events, motives, information sequence, and emotional turns.202. Read [format guidance](../../references/formats.md) for both source and destination.213. Map each essential beat to the destination's tools. Prose interiority may become action, silence, imagery, dialogue, or captions.224. Propose cuts, mergers, or order changes before making changes that alter the story's meaning.235. Draft the adaptation to a new file, keeping the source intact.246. Check pacing and readability in the destination medium rather than preserving source paragraph boundaries.257. Provide a brief change map and update progress under [the project workflow](../../references/project-workflow.md).2627## Safety and side effects2829Do not assume permission to publish or distribute supplied material. No image generation, external upload, or source replacement is automatic.3031## Scripts, references, and dependencies3233No rendering services required. Use the manga skill for panels and scroll beats, or prose guidance for a prose destination.3435## Verification3637Trace essential causal and emotional beats to the adaptation. Check the requested page, episode, or word budget and disclose deliberate omissions.3839## Pi adapter4041Use `/writer adapt --target "chapters/chapter-0001.md" --format manga --brief "A 20-page episode with two silent pages"`.
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