Most sales time goes to the unglamorous middle — the setup, the second draft, the review. The right prompt quietly takes that part off your plate.
Generate options, not answers
Write down what you never want as explicitly as what you do. The exclusions often do more work than the instructions.
Cut before you polish
Lock the parts that never change and leave one slot for the variable. Now every run shares a family resemblance instead of starting from scratch.
- Lower the reading level, then check what broke
- Name the audience and the single goal before you generate
- Keep one ask per prompt — chaining beats cramming
Name the failure modes
Lock the parts that never change and leave one slot for the variable. Now every run shares a family resemblance instead of starting from scratch.
- Lower the reading level, then check what broke
- Have the model flag what it could not cover
- Ask for three angles, then cut to the one worth shipping
Lock the parts that never change and leave one slot for the variable. Now every run shares a family resemblance instead of starting from scratch.