Posts tagged: prompting
Context Is the Prompt: How to Give AI What It Actually Needs
Generic inputs produce generic outputs. What context means in practice: the audience, the argument, the angle, the constraints, the register. How to supply it efficiently.
Building a Personal Style Reference for Your AI Prompts
A style reference is a document that tells the model what you sound like. How to build one from your own writing, what to include, and how to apply it so outputs need less correction.
How to Prompt for Tone When You Have No Examples to Give
Most writers don't have a clean sample document to hand to a model. How to describe tone in terms AI can use: sentence patterns, register, what the piece should not sound like.
Prompt Iteration: How to Refine Until You Have Something Usable
Getting a bad first output is not a failed prompt. What iteration looks like in practice: which elements to adjust, in which order, and when to give up and change your approach.
The Single-Pass vs. Multi-Pass Prompt: When to Use Which
Some content works in one well-constructed prompt. Other content requires a conversation. How to know which situation you are in before you start, and how to structure each.
System Prompts for Writers: What They Are and Why They Matter
A system prompt is standing context the model carries into every session. What to put in yours, what to leave out, and how to maintain it as your workflow evolves.
The Levels of AI Prompting
From the chat UI to Claude Code, the gap between how most people use AI and how serious content producers use it is widening fast.
The Brief Is the System: Why Good Input Determines Everything
Most AI output problems start upstream of the prompt. What a brief needs to contain before you hand anything to a model, and why the writers getting good results are spending more time on setup.
How to Write a Brief That AI Can Use
A content brief written for a human writer needs different things than one structured for AI. What to include, what to cut, and how to format it so the model acts on it rather than interprets it.
Using AI for Outlines: What Works and What Doesn't
AI outlines are often structurally sound and editorially empty. How to use the structure without inheriting the blandness, and how to prompt for outlines that leave room to add something.