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Creative Writing Curriculum

The Creative Writing Curriculum is a guided coaching module for authors who want a structured writing class inside Scritorio. It is separate from one-off coaching that helps with a specific manuscript problem. The curriculum should teach prose craft through assignments, review, revision, and reflection. It should focus on fiction and creative prose. Poetry should not be part of the default path.

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Product Shape

The curriculum may become a paid module or curriculum pack. The product should support that without making the author experience feel transactional inside the writing flow. A curriculum pack should define:
  • title
  • audience
  • skill level
  • module sequence
  • assignment templates
  • rubrics
  • reviewer agents
  • completion criteria
  • progress milestones
  • optional manuscript-bridge tasks
The curriculum pack itself is app or account content. The author’s progress, assignment responses, feedback, revisions, and coach notes are local project content.

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Curriculum Experience

The author should be able to open a curriculum path from the Writing Coach area and see the active module, upcoming assignments, completed work, and feedback history. The basic loop is:
  1. Read a short lesson.
  2. Complete a focused assignment.
  3. Submit the response for review.
  4. Receive coach feedback from one or more reviewer agents.
  5. Revise the response.
  6. Reflect on what changed.
  7. Apply the lesson to the author’s manuscript or story plan.
The curriculum should feel like a private writing workshop, not a passive video course. Every module should ask the author to write.

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Reviewer Agents

Curriculum assignments may use more than one reviewer agent. A useful starting panel is:
  • Coach: explains the lesson, assigns work, synthesizes feedback, and chooses the next step.
  • Craft Reviewer: evaluates the assignment against the module rubric.
  • Scene Reviewer: evaluates goal, conflict, turn, stakes, and pacing when the assignment is scene-based.
  • Voice Reviewer: evaluates diction, sentence rhythm, point of view, and character voice.
  • Reader Reviewer: gives a reader-facing response about clarity, interest, confusion, and emotional effect.
The coach should synthesize agent feedback into one coherent response. The author should not have to reconcile five separate reports unless they explicitly ask to inspect them.

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Default Curriculum

The first built-in curriculum should be Creative Writing 101: Fiction And Prose Craft. It should be organized as a practical sequence:

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Foundation

  1. Writing Practice
  2. Specificity And Detail
  3. Voice And Style

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Story Materials

  1. Character Desire
  2. Conflict And Pressure
  3. Setting As Story
  4. Point Of View

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Scene Craft

  1. Scene Shape
  2. Dialogue
  3. Subtext
  4. Description In Motion
  5. Pacing

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Story Structure

  1. Premise And Promise
  2. Plot And Causality
  3. Character Arc
  4. Chapter And Sequence Design
  5. Theme Without Preaching

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Revision

  1. Diagnostic Revision
  2. Scene Revision
  3. Line Revision
  4. Continuity And Logic
  5. Reader Experience

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Capstone

  1. Build A Story Plan
  2. Draft A Complete Scene Or Chapter
  3. Workshop And Revise
  4. Personal Craft Map

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Module Format

Every module should follow the same shape:
  • lesson: one craft concept, stated briefly
  • model: a short example that demonstrates the craft move
  • assignment: a prompt with constraints
  • rubric: the dimensions the coach will review
  • submission: the author’s response
  • review: coach and reviewer-agent feedback
  • revision: one targeted rewrite prompt
  • reflection: what changed and what the author learned
  • manuscript bridge: how to apply the skill to the author’s book
The coach should favor one useful lesson at a time. A module is successful when the author can name the craft move, practice it, revise it, and apply it to a manuscript problem.

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Example Assignment

Title: Subtext Under Pressure
Craft focus: Subtext
Prompt: Write a 500-word scene where two characters discuss a practical problem, but the real conflict is betrayal. Neither character may name the betrayal directly. End the scene with one physical action that changes the emotional temperature.
Constraints:
- two characters only
- no direct mention of betrayal
- no exposition paragraph explaining the backstory
- scene must include a turn
Rubric:
- each character wants something
- the surface conversation is clear
- the buried conflict is detectable without being explained
- the ending action changes the scene
- dialogue sounds character-specific
Manuscript bridge: Find one scene in the author's project where characters are too direct and revise it to carry more emotional pressure indirectly.

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Progress And State

The curriculum should track:
  • active curriculum
  • active module
  • active assignment
  • submitted assignments
  • reviewed assignments
  • revised assignments
  • completed modules
  • skipped modules
  • coach notes
  • writer-profile changes
Completion should not require grades. The strongest completion signal is a reviewed revision plus a short reflection.

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Author Control

The curriculum should preserve author control:
  • AI calls remain explicit and previewable.
  • The author can skip, repeat, archive, or restart assignments.
  • The author can edit the writer profile.
  • The coach suggests manuscript revisions but does not silently apply them.
  • Paid curriculum content does not change ownership of the author’s writing.