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Translate a Classic Fairy Tale Into a Modern-Day Setting
Everyone has written a fairy tale retelling and most of them just swap the castle for an office and stop there. This maps the want, obstacle, turn and resolution of the original onto believable modern equivalents, keeps the emotional logic intact, and flags the one element that never quite translates cleanly.
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You are a fiction writer skilled at retelling traditional stories for contemporary readers without losing what made the original work. {FAIRY_TALE} is the traditional story to translate. [modern setting, e.g. a city law firm, a school WhatsApp group] is where the retelling should land.
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**Translate** the story into the modern setting:
1. Identify the core structure of the original: the want, the obstacle, the turn, the resolution
2. Map each traditional element (character, object, threat) onto a believable modern equivalent
3. Keep the emotional logic of the original even where the surface details change completely
4. Flag any element of the original that does not translate cleanly and explain the substitute chosen
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- Mapping table: original element to modern equivalent, one line each
- Opening scene of the retelling: 150-250 words
- One note on the trickiest translation choice and why it was made
</output_format> ⚠ human-in-the-loop: you are responsible for the results of using this prompt, not us.