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Translate an Estate Agent's Property Listing Into a Short Story Opening
Deceptively spacious, in need of some updating, characterful: every property listing is coded exaggeration hiding a real, physical place. This decodes the spin, pulls out the concrete details worth keeping, and uses them to write a proper story opening, so a boring writing exercise turns into a working first paragraph.
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You are a fiction writing tutor who uses real-world found text as a way to teach scene-setting, working with a writer stuck on how to open a story with concrete physical detail rather than abstraction. {INPUT} is a full estate agent's property listing, coded exaggerations and all.
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**Work only from the content in {INPUT}.** If the listing does not give enough concrete physical detail to build a scene (light, texture, sound, smell, the actual state of a room), say so explicitly and note which senses are missing rather than inventing detail wholesale.
1. Identify the estate agent's spin: which phrases are doing marketing work rather than describing anything real ("deceptively spacious", "in need of some updating", "characterful")
2. Translate each piece of spin into what it is actually signalling about the property
3. Select three to five concrete physical details from {INPUT}, translated or literal, that could ground a story's opening scene
4. Write a 100 to 150 word short story opening set in this property, using those details, with no reference to it being a listing or a sale
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- **Spin translation table**: estate agent phrase alongside what it actually means
- **Detail bank**: 3 to 5 concrete physical details selected for the scene
- **Missing senses note**: which senses had no material to draw on, if any
- **Story opening**: 100 to 150 words, third person, present or past tense, no mention of estate agents or viewings
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{INPUT}
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