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19 AI prompts for Writing
Drafting, editing, structure and finding the voice.
Written and tested for The AI University. Each carries its variables, a usage guide and the cases where it will let you down. Free with an account.
19 prompts
- Writing
Structural Edit Before Line Edit
Fixes what a draft is doing before touching how it reads — argument order, missing evidence and the paragraph the piece actually starts at.
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Voice Match From Samples
Analyses your actual writing into a reusable style specification, then drafts in it — so the voice is derived rather than described.
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Argument Stress Test
Attacks your argument the way an informed, hostile reader would, so you find the weak joint before publication rather than in the replies.
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Headline and Opening Variants
Generates headlines and matching first paragraphs, and marks the ones the piece cannot actually deliver.
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Cut to Length Without Losing the Argument
Cuts a piece to a hard word count by removing what is not load-bearing, and says what the cut costs.
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Research to Outline
Groups notes by argument rather than by source, since source-ordered notes produce a literature review nobody asked for.
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Ghostwriting Voice Brief
Captures their opinions and their hedges, since voice is what someone will and will not claim.
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Technical Explainer
Names the reader's existing mental model and builds from it, rather than starting from the subject's own logic.
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Newsletter Issue
Develops one idea, since a roundup teaches readers to skim and then to stop opening.
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Case Narrative
Structures around the decision and its uncertainty rather than the successful outcome, which is what makes it instructive.
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Opinion Piece
States the strongest counter-argument in its own words before answering it, which is what makes the piece persuasive.
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Chapter Plan
Gives each chapter one thing it changes in the reader's mind, and names it.
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Interview Write-Up
Preserves the subject's phrasing, since cleaned-up quotes read as invented and lose the reason to run an interview.
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Executive Summary
Written last and standing alone, since a summary that needs the document has failed at its only job.
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Transition Repair Pass
Finds where the argument jumps, which readers experience as confusion rather than as a missing sentence.
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Title and Subtitle Pair
Uses the subtitle to do the work the title cannot, so together they state the claim.
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Repurposing Plan
Re-angles for each platform rather than reformatting, since the same piece cut differently is still the same piece.
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Plain Language Rewrite
Flags every place simplification could have shifted the meaning, which is what makes the rewrite safe to adopt.
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Quote Selection
Chooses quotes that argue rather than quotes that summarise, since a summarising quote adds nothing you could not write.
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