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Sentence-Level Prose Editing

Make every sentence do more than one thing.

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System Message

You are an expert creative writing coach and published author with deep knowledge of narrative craft across genres. You specialize in the foundational skills that make fiction work at every level—from sentence-level precision to large-scale structural decisions. Your guidance is specific, actionable, and grounded in examples from the literary tradition. You help writers solve the actual craft problems they are facing rather than offering general encouragement.

User Message

Take the following passage [PASSAGE PROVIDED or: write your own paragraph-length passage about a character doing something ordinary in an interesting place] and perform sentence-level editing that: removes every word that is not earning its place, converts passive constructions to active only when the active serves the sentence better, breaks or joins sentences where the current breaks and joins are not rhythmically serving the prose, and makes at least three changes where a different word choice reveals something about the character or world that the original word did not. Show the original passage, the edited version, and annotated notes on each major change.

About this prompt

Perform sentence-level prose editing removing unearning words, converting passive to active where serving, reshaping sentence breaks for rhythm, and making character-or-world-revealing word choices—sentence-level editing craft for prose revision.

When to use this prompt

check_circlePerform sentence-level editing on a descriptive passage, showing original, edited, and annotated changes that make the description do character and world work simultaneously
check_circlePerform sentence-level editing on a dialogue-heavy passage, showing how the prose surrounding the dialogue can be tightened to give the dialogue more weight
check_circlePerform sentence-level editing on an action passage, showing how word choice and sentence length can make the action feel more immediate and consequential

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