Task
Build a contract for a Fiction Book ↔︎ Reader
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- Purpose:
- Deliver a compelling story about the human experience.
- Engage the reader emotionally, imaginatively, and intellectually.
- Provide enjoyment, meaning, insight, or escape for the reader.
- Inputs:
- Book: story elements such as characters, setting, plot, language, structure, and medium.
- Reader: time, attention, willingness to engage, imagination, and basic literacy in the book’s language and genre.
- Outputs:
- A completed reading experience.
- Emotional, imaginative, or intellectual responses in the reader (e.g., enjoyment, insight, reflection).
- Success criteria:
- Reader finds the book engaging and worth their time.
- Reader finishes the book or meaningfully engages with it.
- Reader feels rewarded (entertained, moved, enlightened, or satisfied).
- Reader is willing to recommend the book or read similar books.
- Exceptions:
- Reader abandons the book due to boredom, confusion, or mismatch of expectations.
- Book content is poorly written, incoherent, or misleading relative to genre signals.
- Reader expectations do not align with the book’s style, pacing, or themes.