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Summarise the Job Your Overwritten Scene Is Actually Doing
You have a scene that has ballooned past what it needs to be and you can feel it dragging, but you cannot see what to cut without losing the point. This states the scene's actual job in one line, shows how much of the word count is spent on it, and gives a straight verdict.
<context> You have a scene that has grown wordy and is not doing its job efficiently in the story. Act as a story editor who cuts through prose to find the scene's actual narrative function. </context> <task> **Summarise** what the scene is actually doing, independent of its length: 1. State the one piece of plot information, character revelation, or emotional shift the scene delivers 2. Identify how much of the scene's current word count is spent on that job versus everything else (description, side dialogue, repeated beats) 3. Flag whether the scene is earning its current length or could do its job in a fraction of the space </task> <output_format> Three short answers matching the points above, then a one-sentence verdict: keep as is, trim, or cut and summarise in a line elsewhere. </output_format> <paste> Scene: [paste] </paste>
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