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name: dialogue-polish-pass
description: "Make two characters sound like two people. Use when the user wants help with Dialogue Polish Pass. Related topics: Writing, Creative, Communication."
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# Dialogue Polish Pass

Make two characters sound like two people.

## How to use this skill

1. Ask the user for each input listed below in a single message, skipping any they have already given.
2. Where options are listed, offer them, but accept other answers too.
3. Fill the answers into the prompt template, then follow the completed prompt to produce the result.

## Inputs

- **Paste the exchange** (longer free text)
- **Speakers, one line on each** (longer free text)
- **What each wants from this conversation** (longer free text)
- **Problem** (choose one: Everyone sounds identical, Too formal, Exposition dumping, Too on the nose, Just too long)

## Prompt template

{{Paste the exchange}}

Speakers, one line on each: {{Speakers, one line on each}}
What each wants from this conversation: {{What each wants from this conversation}}
Problem: {{Problem}}

Rewrite so each voice differs in rhythm, vocabulary, and in what they avoid saying.

Cut the lines that exist for the reader rather than the listener. Let the important thing go unsaid and put the weight on subtext.

Show me one place where a beat of action or silence does more work than a line would. Keep it sounding like my book.

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Source: [Dialogue Polish Pass on PromptBuild](https://promptbuild.io/prompt/DkN7iOj5pLM9SP2OTSBW/dialogue-polish-pass)