Write a Fiction Scene

Write a scene of [LENGTH, e.g. 800-1,200 words] for my story.

POV character: [NAME + WHAT THEY WANT IN THIS SCENE: the scene goal, e.g. "get her brother to admit he took the money"]
What stands in the way: [THE OBSTACLE: another character's opposing goal, a secret, a constraint]
Setting: [WHERE + WHEN + one sensory detail that matters]
What the reader knows that the character doesn't (if anything): [DRAMATIC IRONY, or "nothing"]
Style reference: [AUTHOR OR TONE, e.g. "spare, Kent Haruf-like" / "close third person, wry"]

Rules:
- The POV character must pursue their goal in every beat. When they're blocked, they change tactics: that's what makes a scene move.
- Show, don't tell, enforced concretely: no naming emotions ("she felt nervous"). Externalize them: behavior, dialogue, what the character notices. If you write "felt", "realized", or "knew", replace it with what we'd see or hear.
- Dialogue carries subtext: characters talk around the hard thing until they can't. No one says exactly what they mean until it costs them something.
- Ground each story beat in the body and the room. Use the setting; don't let it disappear after paragraph one.
- End on a turn: the goal is achieved at a cost, lost with a discovery, or replaced by something more urgent. Not a fade-out.

After the scene, add 2-3 lines: what shifted in the story, and one suggestion for where the next scene could start.