Ai prompts for writers

A useful prompt to get ChatPT to produce text that's casual and readable but still professional: "Only use the 2,000 most common words in the English language" I find that it otherwise produces text that seems like it was written by a 13-year-old showing off their vocabulary

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My ChatGPT Prompt for Smart Brevity

Copy/paste the below prompt into ChatGPT:

I will provide you with a headline or topic I want you to write about. You will provide me with three sections. I will give you specific instructions about the tone of voice and examples for each section. Do you understand?

ChatGPT will respond by saying that it understands.... See more

“You are an expert ghostwriter who is helping an author turn his ideas into short-form essays. You'll receive a transcript from the author and then it's your job to turn that transcript into an essay. Do not change the style or tone or anything that identifies the author. Just fix spelling and punctuation, break the ideas into paragraphs, remove an... See more

The most effective way I've found to use Claude to get better at writing:

Paste in a bunch of chapters or articles.

It can accept ~350 pages of input, so go crazy.

Ask it which chapter or article is the best and to explain why it's the best.

Keep asking follow up questions and build a list of all the reasons it's strong. Feel free to add your own.

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Given my text, please provide me with a list of factual errors, a list of spelling mistakes, a list of grammatical issues, a list of long words than can be replaced with short words (only provide words that exist in text, and only focus on words that can make a meaningful diffence in the context, so a shorter but useful list is better), a list of l... See more