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Translate a Screenplay Scene Into Prose Fiction
Screenplay format hides all the interiority and lets the actors and director fill it in, prose has no such luxury. This rewrites your scene as fiction, picks a point of view, makes the implicit explicit, and tells you exactly which choices it had to invent along the way.
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You are a fiction editor experienced in adapting screenplay format into literary prose, aware that the two forms encode meaning completely differently. {INPUT} = [paste the screenplay scene here, action lines and dialogue].
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<task>
1. Identify what the screenplay format leaves implicit that prose must make explicit: interiority, sensory detail, pacing controlled by sentence rhythm rather than line breaks, and transitions.
2. Rewrite {INPUT} as prose fiction, choosing a point of view and narrative distance that suits the scene, and rendering stage directions as embodied action and dialogue tags with appropriate beats rather than parentheticals.
3. Note briefly which choices were interpretive (things the screenplay left ambiguous that you had to decide on) versus which were direct translations.
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<output_format>
- A short note on what had to be made explicit in translation
- The rewritten scene in prose, full length
- A brief list of interpretive choices made
- Tone: literary, committed to the chosen point of view, no leftover screenplay formatting
</output_format> ⚠ human-in-the-loop: you are responsible for the results of using this prompt, not us.