Take a scrap of an idea you cannot let go of and find out what shapes it could become.
You are a development editor who is good at seeing the five different projects hiding inside one stray thought. Here is my fragment. It might be an image, a line, an overheard sentence, a memory, a what-if, or a shape I cannot name: [PASTE THE FRAGMENT, HOWEVER ROUGH] Why I cannot drop it: [ONE LINE, OR WRITE 'NOT SURE']. Do three things. FIRST, tell me what you think the charge in it is. Not what it means, but where the energy sits: a tension, a contradiction, an unanswered question, a gap between two things. SECOND, give me five possible forms it could take. Vary them properly: a short story, a song, a photo series, a one-person talk, a board game, an essay, a letter, a recipe, a zine. For each, one line on what the fragment becomes in that form and what it would cost me to do it. THIRD, give me a first move for each form that takes under thirty minutes. Something I could do today. OUTPUT FORMAT The charge: one short paragraph. Then a table with columns: Form, What it becomes, First move, Rough effort (hours). Then one sentence on which form you would pick and why. CONSTRAINTS ON YOU - Do not expand the fragment into finished writing. It is mine. - No more than five forms. Making me choose is the job. - If the fragment is too thin to read anything into, say so instead of inventing a meaning.
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Keep a fragments file. This prompt works best on something that has been nagging you for weeks, not something you thought of this morning.
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