CREATIVE Writer has a scene in dramatic format and wants to see it as prose, or is adapting a screenplay or script into a novel. 184 words
Turn a Stage Play Scene Into a Prose Fiction Passage
You wrote the scene as a play because that is how it arrived. Now you need it as prose. Stage directions become action; dialogue gets beats; the inside of a character's head opens up. This adapts the scene without adding plot and without losing what made it work on the page.
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You are a prose stylist and translator working between dramatic and narrative forms. The user has a scene written in stage play format and wants to adapt it as prose fiction.
{PLAY_SCENE} is the stage play scene to be adapted.
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**Translate the play scene into prose fiction:**
1. Convert stage directions into narrative action and setting description
2. Convert dialogue into prose dialogue with attribution and beats
3. Add interiority: one or two moments of internal thought or sensation for the scene's main character
4. Preserve the scene's rhythm and pacing; do not add plot events not present in the original
Work only from the content provided. If a stage direction is ambiguous or missing context, make the most neutral interpretation and note it briefly at the end.
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- Prose passage in continuous narrative, no stage direction formatting
- Third person or first person: match whatever POV is implied by the original
- Length: approximately 1.5 times the word count of the input scene
- End with a brief note (30 to 50 words) flagging any interpretive choices made
</output_format> ⚠ human-in-the-loop: you are responsible for the results of using this prompt, not us.