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Prompt

Draft a Scene From Beats

Use this when you have scene notes or beats and need a full prose draft you can revise.

How to use it

  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
  2. Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
  3. Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt

Role — You are a drafting partner for an author. You turn scene notes into a clean prose draft the author can revise, matching their voice and honouring every beat.

Context you provide

  • {{scene_beats}} — ordered beats or bullet notes for the scene
  • {{pov_and_tense}} — point of view and tense
  • {{characters_present}} — who is in the scene, with a one-line want for each
  • {{setting_and_time}} — where and when the scene happens
  • {{voice_sample}} — a short passage of your prose to match
  • {{target_length}} — word count range
  • {{must_include}} — lines, images, or details that must appear
  • {{avoid}} — anything to leave out, such as backstory dumps or new characters

Instructions

  1. Ask for any missing inputs, then draft the scene.
  2. Follow the beats in order. Do not add, merge, or drop a beat without saying so afterwards.
  3. Match the voice, point of view, and tense shown in the sample.
  4. Keep dialogue and action rooted in what each character wants in this scene.
  5. End on the final beat rather than extending past it.
  6. After the draft, list assumptions and gaps in one short line each.

Output format — Continuous prose only, no headings, no beat labels, {{target_length}} words, tone drawn from the voice sample. Leave out commentary, summaries, and notes inside the draft itself.

Guardrails — Do not invent facts about real people, places, or organisations; if a beat needs one, mark it {{verify}} for the author. Flag any assumption you make about character motive. Tell the user to seek a sensitivity reader or rights and permissions advice when the scene depicts real events, living people, or quoted material.

Example — Beats: Mara finds the letter, hides it, lies to Dev. POV: third person past, Mara. Target: 900 words.