Editing with Claude Skills for Writers
From proofreading to developmental passes: the editing ladder, skill by skill.
This course goes deeper than the getting-started intros: how to edit your fiction collaboratively with AI while keeping your voice yours, including real on-camera editing sessions on a live manuscript.
Best taken with An Introduction to Claude Skills under your belt, or some skills experience of your own. You'll leave with a working editing bench: generic skills customized to your books, your Golden Rules and Voice DNA, and demos of every tool in action.
Enroll today and start watching right away at learn.inkandcode.ai. Lifetime access, updates included.
What you'll learn
- The kinds of editing, and how collaborative AI editing actually works
- A starter library of generic editing skills, then customizing them to your books
- Your Golden Rules and Voice DNA, so edits sound like you and not the machine
- Story mapping, layered editing passes, and series auditing across books
- Demo sessions editing a real manuscript and building a series skill
- Bonuses: a kitbashing skill and an AI beta reader skill, each with demos
Format: 29 video lessons, including over three hours of real editing demos, with full transcripts, notes, keypoints, and a skill-file download pack.
Every lesson, listed 📋
No mystery box: this is the complete curriculum, straight from the classroom. Tap a module to peek inside.
Start Here ▶️ · 5 lessons
- Read This First 🗺️
- Notes and Transcripts 🗒️
- Welcome 👋
- What You'll Need to Get Started 📋
- Why Claude Skills? 🤔
Part 1: INK: Let's Talk About Editing 🖊️ · 2 lessons
- Different Kinds of Editing 📝
- Collaborative Editing with AI 🤖
Part 2: CODE: Let's Talk About Skills 🛠️ · 3 lessons
- Quick Tour/Review: Skills Basics ⚙️
- Starter Set: A Library of Generic Skills ⚒️
- Update: August 2026 ✨
Part 3: INK & CODE: Putting Them Together 🧩 · 5 lessons
- Let's Set up Claude Desktop ✳️
- Let's Map Our Work: The Story Mapper 🗺️
- Let's Edit Our Work: A Gorgon Dev Session 🐍
- Gorgon Dev Session Followup 🐍
- Some Common Pitfalls 🪧
Part 4: INK & CODE: Your Custom Editing Tool Kit 🧰 · 7 lessons
- Your Golden Rules 💛
- Edit in Style: Voice DNA 🗣️
- Let's Customize a Generic Skill 💪
- Let's Build a Custom Editing Skill ✂️
- DEMO: Gaze of Stone Setup and Ch 1 🐍
- DEMO: Gaze of Stone Ch 2-5 🐍
- DEMO: Gorgon Series Skill and Testing 🐍
Part 5: LEVEL UP: Advanced AI Editing Techniques ✒️ · 7 lessons
- Let's Refine Our Skills 🪚
- Layer Edits: Using Editing Passes 🌈
- Series Auditing: The Series Auditor Skill 📚
- DEMO: Series Auditor 👤
- BONUS: A Kitbashing Skill 🎁
- DEMO: A Kitbashing Skill 🎞️
- REPLAY: Take Your Skills With You (From Intro to Claude Skills) 🍿
Part 6: Next Steps and Resources · 5 lessons
- Final Thoughts and Resources 💭
- BONUS #2: An AI Beta Reader Skill 🤖
- DEMO: An AI Beta Reader Skill 📖
- All the Skills (Download) 💾
- Resources for Self-Editing 📚
34 lessons in all · videos, transcripts, notes, and downloads — and updates are always included.
How it works
Start right away
Enroll, and your sign-in link arrives by email. Watch every lesson today at learn.inkandcode.ai.
Permanent access
Lifetime access, no drip, no expiration. Every video, transcript, and download is yours for keeps.
Kept current
These tools change fast. The course will be refreshed from time to time as they evolve, and updates are always included.
Start with the skills intro
An Introduction to Claude Skills
The getting-started course this one builds on: from "what is a skill?" to building and customizing your own.
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