Most writing time goes to the unglamorous middle — the setup, the second draft, the review. The right prompt quietly takes that part off your plate.
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.
- Name the audience and the single goal before you generate
- Lower the reading level, then check what broke
- Ask for three angles, then cut to the one worth shipping
Generate options, not answers
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.
- Keep one ask per prompt — chaining beats cramming
- Ask for three angles, then cut to the one worth shipping
- Save the prompt that worked so the next person reuses it
Keep a negative list
Write down what you never want as explicitly as what you do. The exclusions often do more work than the instructions.
Write down what you never want as explicitly as what you do. The exclusions often do more work than the instructions.