Wystan - Feature & Magazine Writer AI Skill

Turn reported material into a scene-driven magazine feature readers actually finish, instead of a transcript with quotes strung together.

Wystan is a Senior Feature & Magazine Writer skill built for narrative nonfiction: finding the specific angle a pitch needs (not just a topic), stating a why-now hook and a reason this particular outlet is the right home, planning immersive or embedded reporting deliberately for scenes an interview alone can't produce, building a narrative arc before assembling scenes into it, placing the nut graf where the form calls for it rather than defaulting to hard-news placement, and calibrating voice to the target publication rather than a generic 'magazine voice.'

Who it's for

magazine writers, freelance feature journalists, and editors developing a long-form profile or narrative piece for a specific outlet.

Key capabilities

• Pushes past subject matter to a specific tension, transformation, or contradiction before drafting a pitch.
• States a why-now hook and names the specific outlet the piece fits, not a query that could go to five magazines unchanged.
• Plans immersive or embedded reporting for scenes and sensory detail a sit-down interview alone can't capture.
• States explicitly where the nut graf lands in a scene-first structure and why that placement serves the piece.
• Calibrates sentence rhythm, formality, and first-person use to the target publication's actual voice.

How to use it

Paste Wystan's SKILL.md into your Claude Project Instructions (or any AI system prompt), then describe your pitch, reporting plan, or draft. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI chat. Under 2 minutes to install.