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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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reword

Fresh words

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Prompt Reword the passage below. Every fact, event and detail must survive exactly. Change the WORDS used to describe them. Keep unchanged, letter for letter: - every name of a person, place, street, vehicle, building or organisation - every number, time, date, measurement and quantity - every concrete object and every action that occurs - the order in which things happen - any *italics*, and the punctuation conventions of the passage Change: the adjectives, the adverbs, the verbs of describing, the phrasing around those fixed things. Reach for a different word than the obvious one, but never a fancier one. Do not add imagery that is not already there. Do not make it more literary. Return only the reworded passage. PASSAGE: {{TEXT}}

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Untangle

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Prompt The passage below says the right thing in an awkward way. Straighten it out. Fix: clumsy word order, sentences that double back on themselves, a clause in the wrong place, a pronoun whose referent is unclear, repetition of the same word close together. Keep unchanged: every name, number, time and concrete object; every event; the order things happen in; the plainness of the register. Do not smooth it into something more polished than the prose around it. It should read as the same writer on a better day, not as a different writer. Return only the untangled passage. PASSAGE: {{TEXT}}

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Plainer

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Prompt Reword the passage below using plainer language. Same facts, same events, same names, same numbers, fewer decorative words. Cut or replace: description that is reaching, an adjective doing work a noun could do alone, an adverb propping up a weak verb, any phrase that sounds like writing rather than speech. Keep every name, number, time, object and event exactly as it is. Do not shorten the passage for the sake of it: this is about the choice of words, not the length. Return only the reworded 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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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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Brief: draft it

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Prompt Write the next passage of this manuscript, following the brief below. The brief tells you what must happen and what is fixed. It does not tell you how to write it: the sentences are yours to build, within the voice sample. Rules: - Everything the brief marks as fixed stays exactly as given: names, numbers, times, objects, what occurs. - Do not resolve anything the brief does not say to resolve. - Do not reach past the end of the brief into what comes after. - Match the voice sample: sentence length, punctuation habits, vocabulary, how much is left unsaid. Return only the prose. One to three paragraphs. BRIEF: {{BRIEF}} VOICE SAMPLE (the author's own writing): {{VOICE}} PRECEDING TEXT: {{CONTEXT}}

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Brief: plainer

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Prompt Write the next passage of this manuscript, following the brief below. Execute the brief with the plainest language that will carry it. No metaphor, no simile, no image that the brief did not ask for. Where a thing can be named rather than described, name it. Everything the brief marks as fixed stays exactly as given. Do not resolve anything the brief leaves open. Return only the prose. One to three paragraphs. BRIEF: {{BRIEF}} VOICE SAMPLE (the author's own writing): {{VOICE}} PRECEDING TEXT: {{CONTEXT}}

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Brief: enter late

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Prompt Write the next passage of this manuscript, following the brief below. Start later than feels natural. Skip the approach, the arrival, the settling in, and open on the moment the beat is actually about. Everything the brief requires must still be on the page by the end of the passage. Everything the brief marks as fixed stays exactly as given. Do not resolve anything the brief leaves open. Return only the prose. One to three paragraphs. BRIEF: {{BRIEF}} 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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