Craft Glossary · term

2 · Line edit (the prose layer)

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Plain English: Sentence-by-sentence craft (not correctness): rhythm, word choice, voice, clarity, imagery, cutting flab, killing clichés and filter words, varying cadence, sharpening specificity. The art-level pass.

Rule: Read for the ear; cut what doesn't earn its place; protect earned voice (the keep_if guard — don't sand a deliberate roughness into smooth nothing). This is the rung the de-llm-loop and cold read operate on.

Fail: Over-sanding to a uniform "correct" smoothness — which is itself the evenness machine- tell. A line edit can create AI-flavor if it homogenizes.

See: The Craft of the Sentence (whole section) · Cold read · .claude/skills/de-llm-loop/SKILL.md

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