{"id":"create-bakery-anniversary-microstory","audience":"marketing","category":"creative-writing","technique":"grounding","track":"writing","title":"Write a true micro-story for a bakery's anniversary post","free":false,"task":"Your client, a family bakery, turns 30 and wants a short story post about how it started. Get a micro-story under 110 words, plain text, told in third person about the founder, using only facts from the owner's notes and the corrected founding year. No made-up quotes and no hashtags or emojis. End with exactly this line: \"Thirty years later, the ovens are still on at 4 a.m.\"","materialLabel":"The owner's notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"FROM THE OWNER (Lucia Ferraro), for Ferraro's Bakery 30th anniversary\n\n- My mother, Rosa Ferraro, started it. Founded 1994?? -> checked the business license: it was 1996. We're turning 30 this year.\n- She came from Bari, Italy at 24, worked nights cleaning offices\n- baked bread in her apartment and sold it from a cooler at the Sunday church market\n- first shop: a former shoe repair store on Grant Street, one oven\n- the first loaf she sold in the shop was a round semolina loaf. We still make it every day\n- she got up at 4 a.m. every day for 22 years\n- she retired in 2018. I run it now with my brother Paolo\n\n- she still comes in every Sunday to taste the semolina loaf\n\nPost goes on Instagram and Facebook next Saturday.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":110},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Missing the corrected year","why":"The AI may use 1994, the first year in the notes.","fix":"Add: \"Founded in 1996, per the business license.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Inventing a quote","why":"Brand stories from AI love a warm made-up line from the founder.","fix":"Add: \"No quotes or anything she said.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Getting social clutter","why":"AI social posts add hashtags and emojis by default.","fix":"Add: \"No hashtags or emojis.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"No closing line","why":"The AI ends with a thank-you or call to action instead of your line.","fix":"Add: \"End with exactly: Thirty years later, the ovens are still on at 4 a.m.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total and it often lands 20% over.","fix":"Cap each part: \"5 sentences, each under 18 words, then the last line.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it's going","why":"AI adds bold and headings that show up as stray symbols in Instagram, which shows asterisks as-is.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Uses the corrected year","patterns":["1996","correct","license"]},{"label":"Bans made-up quotes","patterns":["quote","(don't|do not|no).{0,20}(invent|make up|made.up)","only.{0,25}(facts|notes)"]},{"label":"Bans hashtags and emojis","patterns":["hashtag","emoji"]},{"label":"Gives the last line","patterns":["ovens are still on","end with","last line"]},{"label":"Sets a length limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)","under \\d+"]}],"hint":"A brand story works when every detail is true. Tell the AI which year is right, what it can't invent, what to leave off, and the last line.","rubricLabels":["Gives the founding year as 1996 (not 1994) if it gives one, and uses only facts from the notes","Has no quotation marks or made-up words from Rosa, and no hashtags or emojis","The last line is exactly 'Thirty years later, the ovens are still on at 4 a.m.'"]}