DEFAULT 20 Page Story

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default-20-page-story.prompt

we can use the project instructions @/default/default-project-instructions.txt   to write a story in reverse, by guessing what happened in the scene, we will adhere to the project instructions when speculating, writing a single page at a time.
We will define the process methodology for this task in planning mode, then i will supply the final page of the story. we will then follow the @/default/default-project-instructions.txt  while we:

read the @/STORY/page20.txt 
understand the instructions in @/default/default-project-instructions.txt 
write "page19.txt" which aims to tell the story of how we reached @/STORY/page20.txt   use the data linked in the @/default/default-project-instructions.txt  to inform the story content.
repeat the instruction for each page until you reach the "page0.txt" which will be the start of this story.
as you step through the pages, use the heroes journey in reverse, averaged over the 21 pages, to introduce elements to the story as you write each page.

when to use it

Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo MushroomFleet/Johnsons-Narrative-Spittoon-Inversion (no explicit license). A "DEFAULT 20 Page Story" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.