A good research prompt isn't a magic trick. It's a checklist you don't have to remember, run by something that never gets bored.
Start with the smallest version
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
- Ask for three angles, then cut to the one worth shipping
- Have the model flag what it could not cover
Anchor to one reader
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.
- Save the prompt that worked so the next person reuses it
- Have the model flag what it could not cover
- Lower the reading level, then check what broke
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.