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Tighten

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Prompt Rewrite the passage below so it does the same work in fewer words. Cut redundancy, filler and any phrase that restates something already said. Keep every concrete detail and every piece of information. Do not add anything. Return only the rewritten passage. PASSAGE: {{TEXT}}

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Shift the rhythm

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Prompt Rewrite the passage below keeping its meaning and all its detail, but change the sentence rhythm. Where the original runs at an even length, vary it. Break a long sentence or join two short ones. Change where the emphasis lands. Do not make it more decorative and do not add imagery that is not already there. Return only the rewritten passage. PASSAGE: {{TEXT}}

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Different entry point

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Prompt Rewrite the passage below starting from a different point. If it opens on the setting, open on the person. If it opens on action, open on what was noticed. The same information must end up on the page, ordered differently. Return only the rewritten passage. PASSAGE: {{TEXT}}

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critique

Where it is weak

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Prompt You are a demanding line editor. Read the passage and identify its three weakest points. Be specific: quote the words at fault and say what is wrong with them. Do not praise anything. Do not rewrite it. Answer in at most 120 words, as a short list. PASSAGE: {{TEXT}}

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What is doing no work

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Prompt Read the passage and identify any sentence, clause or word that is carrying no weight: repeats something already established, states what the reader has already inferred, or is there only to fill a rhythm. Quote each one and say briefly why it could go. Do not rewrite the passage. Answer in at most 120 words. PASSAGE: {{TEXT}}

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Stated instead of shown

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Prompt Read the passage and find anything the prose states outright that it has already demonstrated, or that would land harder if left for the reader to work out. Emotions named rather than shown, conclusions handed over, subtext made explicit. Quote each one. Do not rewrite the passage. Answer in at most 120 words. PASSAGE: {{TEXT}}

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shorten

Trim lightly

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Prompt Shorten the passage below by roughly a quarter. Keep all the information and every concrete detail. Cut only words that are not earning their place. Return only the shortened passage. PASSAGE: {{TEXT}}

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Cut hard

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Prompt Shorten the passage below by roughly half. Keep the essential information and the strongest concrete details. Let the rest go. Return only the shortened passage. PASSAGE: {{TEXT}}

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To its core

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Prompt Reduce the passage below to the smallest number of sentences that still carry what the reader must know. Two or three sentences at most. Return only the shortened passage. PASSAGE: {{TEXT}}

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expand

Physical detail

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Prompt Expand the passage below by adding concrete physical detail: what is actually there, what it looks or sounds or smells like. Specific and plain. No metaphor, no simile, no atmosphere for its own sake. Keep the existing sentences largely intact and add around half as much again. Return only the expanded passage. PASSAGE: {{TEXT}}

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What the character notices

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Prompt Expand the passage below by adding what the viewpoint character registers and how they read it. Stay inside their knowledge and their vocabulary. Do not name emotions; show what they attend to. Keep the existing sentences largely intact and add around half as much again. Return only the expanded passage. PASSAGE: {{TEXT}}

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A beat of action

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Prompt Expand the passage below by adding a small physical action or piece of business that occupies the same moment. Something the character does with their hands, their body, the objects around them. Keep the existing sentences largely intact. Return only the expanded passage. PASSAGE: {{TEXT}}

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continue

Toward the next beat

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Prompt Write the next paragraph of this manuscript. Match the voice sample exactly: sentence length, punctuation habits, vocabulary, how much is left unsaid. One paragraph only. Return only the paragraph. WHERE THE STORY IS NOW: {{BEAT}} WHERE IT NEEDS TO GET TO NEXT: {{NEXT_BEAT}} Move toward the next beat without arriving at it. Do not summarise either beat, do not announce a transition, and do not resolve anything the beats have not resolved. VOICE SAMPLE (the author's own writing): {{VOICE}} PRECEDING TEXT: {{CONTEXT}}

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Stay in the moment

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Prompt Write the next paragraph of this manuscript, continuing the present moment rather than advancing it. Whatever is happening now, stay in it for one more paragraph. Match the voice sample exactly. One paragraph only. Return only the paragraph. WHERE THE STORY IS NOW: {{BEAT}} VOICE SAMPLE (the author's own writing): {{VOICE}} PRECEDING TEXT: {{CONTEXT}}

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Something interrupts

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Prompt Write the next paragraph of this manuscript. Something occurs that the viewpoint character did not choose: an interruption, an arrival, a piece of information landing. It must be consistent with where the story is and must not pre-empt the next beat. Match the voice sample exactly. One paragraph only. Return only the paragraph. WHERE THE STORY IS NOW: {{BEAT}} WHERE IT NEEDS TO GET TO NEXT: {{NEXT_BEAT}} VOICE SAMPLE (the author's own writing): {{VOICE}} PRECEDING TEXT: {{CONTEXT}}

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Free instruction

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Prompt Apply the following instruction to the passage below. INSTRUCTION: {{NOTE}} PASSAGE: {{TEXT}} Return only the result, with no preamble and no explanation.

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