# Read On Air

> A studio for the short personal belief essay read aloud on the radio: one belief, said plainly in the first person, carried by one particular moment from the writer's own life, told to a listener rather than preached at them. Paste a draft and pick a 2, 3 or 4 minute budget; the page times it on a reel-to-reel tape deck, finds the sentences that state a belief and the ones that preach, and lays the draft out as a typed radio script. One metered run gives a producer's verdict and notes that quote the draft word for word.

URL: https://read-on-air.skillsafe.ai/
API: https://read-on-air.skillsafe.ai/api.html
Built on: @organvm-iv-taxis/creative-writing-craft (https://skillsafe.ai/skill/@organvm-iv-taxis/creative-writing-craft) - creative nonfiction craft: show rather than tell, meaningful detail, a last image that echoes the first, revision in passes.

## Free, in the browser

- Read-aloud time at 150 words a minute (an estimate of a calm reading pace) against a budget of 300, 450 or 600 words for 2, 3 or 4 minutes, drawn as a tape deck: the left reel holds the time left, the right reel the time used, red when over.
- Belief sentences: any sentence with "I believe" in it (also "I still believe", "I have come to believe", "I don't believe").
- A pulpit meter: sentences that tell the listener what to do or think ("you should", "we must", "everyone needs to", "people have to", or opening with an order such as "Remember", "Don't", "Be", "Let's"); 3 or more is the red zone.
- Time markers ("that morning", "the summer I was nine", "in 1998") as a hint only, and big abstract words (kindness, truth, hope and others) with their counts.
- The timed script: the draft typed out with a mark every 30 seconds and a TIME line where the budget runs out.
- Exports: Markdown, the timed script as text, and JSON. Drafts can be opened from .txt or .md files.

## The one paid task: edit

Input (all strings): task "edit", minutes, draft, page_facts (the counts above, one "key | ..." per line).
Reply (one JSON object): title, belief (one sentence starting "I believe"), verdict (name_it, find_the_moment, off_the_pulpit or on_air), verdict_reason, moment (3-12 words copied from the draft, or empty), notes (three to five {kind: keep|cut|show|ask, quote copied word for word from the draft, text}), first_line, last_line.
Verdict rule, in order: name_it when no sentence states a belief; find_the_moment when the draft tells no one particular moment; off_the_pulpit when 3 or more sentences preach; otherwise on_air.
The page re-checks every reply: the verdict against its counts, every quote and the moment against the draft, a cut when the draft is over time, names in the suggested lines that the draft never uses, every number in the prose, and the word limits. It never rewrites the essay.

## The form

The short personal belief essay read aloud on the radio goes back to the 1950s: ordinary people reading what they believe, in a few minutes, on the air.