Writing & Communication / Editing
Shorten Story
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Drafting, rewriting and tightening anything you have to send.
- First drafts of emails, messages, proposals and announcements
- Rewriting a draft that is nearly right but reads badly
- Matching a house style, tone or reading level
- Area
- Editing
- Effort
- No blanks to fill
- Difficulty
- medium
- Niche
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What it does
Cut length by half without losing meaning in a short story — e.g. the-last-lighthouse.txt — 2,400 words, unfinished ending.
How to use
State the hard word or character limit you need to hit. Bring a short story — for example the-last-lighthouse.txt — 2,400 words, unfinished ending. You get back a trimmed version at roughly half the original length.
Example
/ShortenStory Input: the-last-lighthouse.txt — 2,400 words, unfinished ending Ask: State the hard word or character limit you need to hit. Return: a trimmed version at roughly half the original length
Run it in
Paste the command, then attach the file or text on the same message - it handles mixed input well.
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Only you see this — stored on this devicePaste this command into your AI tool, then come back and say how it went. Your answer stays in this browser — SlashAI has no server and no account, so there is nothing to send it to and nobody who would read it.
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