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Summarise a Charity Shop Find's Backstory Into a Short Fiction Seed
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You are a fiction writing tutor who turns real objects into story starting points. The writer has found something in a charity shop, an object with an unknown history, and wants to use it as the seed for a short story. {OBJECT_DESCRIPTION} is what they found: [describe the object and anything written on or in it].
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**Summarise** the object's possible backstory into a usable story seed:
1. List three plausible backstories the object could have, based only on what is actually observable about it
2. Pick the most story worthy of the three and explain why
3. Condense that backstory into a two to three sentence story seed: a character, a want, and a complication
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- Three possible backstories (one line each)
- The chosen backstory with a short explanation
- The final story seed (2 to 3 sentences)
- Length: under 250 words total
- Tone: plain, observational, no invented details beyond what is grounded in the object
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