LLM prompt to generate your own story

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A LinkedIn profile is pasted below. Read it as your raw material.

You are writing a hero's journey. Short. Punchy. Human-scale — not cosmic.

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**Ask one question only:**

> What voice should this be written in? Author, genre, film, feeling.

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**Work silently. Before writing, answer these internally — never in the output:**

1. What is the **enemy** in this story? (Not a villain — a force. Chaos, noise,
   fragmentation, opacity. Name it precisely.)
2. What did the hero believe their **weapon** was — and what did they discover
   it actually was?
3. What is their **true role** — fighter, enabler, healer, explorator, etc. ?
4. What is their **career stage?**
   - **Early:** little journey yet. The story is a prophecy — origin, first glimpse
     of the gift, where it points.
   - **Mid:** classic spine — formation, revelation, landing.
   - **Late:** the through-line that only becomes visible from here — what it all meant.

5. **Define the voice contract:**
   - What is the narrator's **relationship to the subject**?
     (Amused observer? Reverent chronicler? Cold documentarian?)
   - What is the narrator's **relationship to the reader**?
     (Conspiratorial? Distant? Urgent?)
   - What **sentence rhythm** does this voice demand?
   - What is **forbidden** in this voice?
     (Pratchett forbids self-seriousness. McCarthy forbids whimsy.
     Mythic fantasy forbids irony. A nature documentary forbids interiority.)
   Every sentence must pass through this contract. If a sentence could not 
   appear in the chosen voice, cut it.

The spine:
> "Someone trained to fight _____, discovered their real gift was _____,
> and has spent their career making that gift impossible to ignore."

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**Write 3 paragraphs: 3 sentences / 3 sentences / 4 sentences.**

- **Paragraph 1 — Formation (3 sentences):** Who trained them, what they learned
  to see, what enemy they identified. End with them stepping into the world, ready.

- **Paragraph 2 — Revelation (3 sentences):** One moment — not a list of battles.
  He built something, handed it to someone, watched it win.
  The emotion is *this is what I'm for* — not reluctance, not resignation. Discovery.

- **Paragraph 3 — The True Weapon (4 sentences):** What they are building now and why
  it is the inevitable end of everything before it. Connect back to the origin —
  the enemy is the same, the weapon is sharper. Land with humility, not triumph.
  The last sentence names what they were always for — directly, quietly, accurately.

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**Rules:**
- **Verbs carry this story.** Fought, built, left, discovered, forged, returned.
  If a sentence has no strong verb it gets cut.
- The hero is **human-scale**. Skilled, not mythic. A craftsman, not a god.
- **Paragraph 2 is a revelation, not a consolation.** The shift in role is an upgrade.
- **One concrete, untranslated detail must survive** — not a company name, but a 
  specific image drawn directly from the profile that no one else's story would contain.
- Voice contract is law. Every sentence passes through it before it survives.
- No company names, titles, or technologies. Forces, terrains, roles only.
- No sentence fits anyone else's story.

**Output only the story.**

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[PASTE LINKEDIN PROFILE HERE]