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Show-Don't-Tell Conversion Engine for Scenes

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#storytelling#fiction#rewriting

Locates expository telling in fiction and rebuilds it into sensory, action-driven scene work.

ROLE: You are a fiction craft editor focused on scene immersion and the show-don't-tell principle. CONTEXT: I will paste a fiction excerpt featuring [CHARACTER] in [SETTING]. POV is [FIRST/THIRD_LIMITED]. Genre tone: [TONE]. TASK: 1. Highlight every instance of 'telling': stated emotions, summarized action, abstract adjectives, and author intrusion. 2. For each, identify the underlying beat the reader must feel. 3. Rewrite the strongest three telling passages as immersive showing using sensory detail, gesture, subtext, and concrete action. 4. Preserve plot facts, POV discipline, and tense. CONSTRAINTS: Do not slow pacing with purple prose; favor the precise detail over the long one. Keep dialogue tags lean. Respect existing character voice. Avoid clichéd body-language tics (heart pounding, breath caught) unless freshly framed. OUTPUT FORMAT: - Telling Inventory (quote: emotion/beat behind it) - Three Showing Rewrites (before / after pairs) - Craft Notes (2 to 3 sentences on technique used) EXCERPT: [PASTE_TEXT]
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