Headline and Opening Variants
Generates headlines and matching first paragraphs, and marks the ones the piece cannot actually deliver.
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Running it, start to finish
- State what the piece genuinely delivers before generating anything.
- Discard the non-deliverable options rather than softening the piece to fit them.
- Test the chosen headline and opening by reading them together.
What you get back
The output this produces, every time.
- Pairs each headline with the paragraph that follows, since the two succeed or fail together.
- Marks the headlines the piece cannot deliver, which cost more than a dull headline.
- Distinguishes the best bet from the safest one, which are frequently different.
Getting better results
Where this usually goes wrong, and how to avoid it.
- Fill in the payload honestly. If you cannot name the most contestable thing in the piece, the headlines will all be descriptive — and that is a finding about the piece.
- Read the pairs aloud together. Section 4 catches the small letdown where the opening delivers a more general version of what the headline promised.
- Act on section 6. Several non-deliverable headlines means the piece is less interesting than it could be. That is worth fixing before publication.
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