Writing Prompts

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Technical Writing
ChatGPT

Crafting B2B SaaS Release Notes for Customer Action

This prompt helps technical writers and product managers transform standard feature lists into truly valuable B2B SaaS release notes. Focus on explaining the impact of changes, guiding users on how to use new features, and providing clear troubleshooting, ensuring customers understand the benefit and next steps.

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YouTube Scripts
ChatGPT

Interview Podcast Prep Document with Segmented Questions

This prompt helps podcast hosts create a comprehensive interview preparation document. It generates a cold open, six main interview segments with questions, three escape questions for unexpected lulls, host hand-offs, an outro, and a show notes outline, all tailored to a specific guest and topic.

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Copywriting
ChatGPT

Crafting a TEDx Talk: From Niche Expertise to Universal Insight

This prompt guides TEDx speakers in developing a 14-minute talk script. It focuses on transforming a specific professional insight into a universal lesson, incorporating story-led delivery, audience awareness, and precise stage directions for impactful communication.

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Copywriting
ChatGPT

Budget Justification for a 24-Month Program Grant

Develop a detailed, mission-aligned budget narrative for a 24-month program grant. This prompt guides you in justifying each line item with evidence and strategic rationale, anticipating a skeptical reviewer's questions to strengthen your funding application.

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Copywriting
ChatGPT

Federal Grant Narrative: Workforce Development Program Design

Generate a comprehensive federal grant narrative section for a workforce development program. This tool helps structure problem statements, proposed approaches, expected outcomes, measurement strategies, and budget narratives, ensuring alignment with evaluator expectations and funder logic models for competitive applications.

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Blog Posts
ChatGPT

Architecture Decision Record (ADR) Template with SQS vs. Kafka Example

This resource provides a structured Architecture Decision Record (ADR) template designed for engineering teams. It includes a complete, worked example illustrating the process of choosing between SQS and Kafka for an event bus, promoting clear documentation of architectural choices.

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Blog Posts
ChatGPT

Technical Migration Guide: Upgrading a Library from v2 to v3

Generate a detailed technical migration guide for engineers moving from version 2 to version 3 of a specified software library. This guide will include an overview, prerequisites, step-by-step instructions, automated code-mod snippets, a manual fallback path, verification, and troubleshooting sections, ensuring a smooth upgrade process.

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Blog Posts
ChatGPT

Create an On-Call Runbook for Recurring System Tasks

This prompt generates a detailed internal runbook for a specific, recurring on-call task. It's designed to be comprehensive enough for a new on-call engineer to follow independently, covering prerequisites, execution steps, verification, and troubleshooting, ensuring operational consistency and reducing reliance on tribal knowledge.

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Email
ChatGPT

Crafting Bi-Weekly Company Updates for Hybrid Teams

This prompt helps internal communications professionals generate a complete draft for a bi-weekly company newsletter. It focuses on delivering key updates, celebrating achievements, and sharing important information for a 150-person hybrid workforce, fostering connection and transparency.

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Email
ChatGPT

Industry Roundup Newsletter: Curated Insights, Not Just Links

Craft a weekly or bi-weekly industry roundup newsletter designed to inform busy professionals. This prompt helps synthesize top news stories, add your personal perspective, and structure the content for quick, engaging reads, moving beyond simple link sharing.

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Email
ChatGPT

Weekly B2B SaaS Newsletter: Operator Insights and Curated Links

This prompt helps B2B SaaS operators draft a weekly newsletter. It focuses on distilling a single hard-won operational insight into actionable advice, supported by a curated list of relevant external links. The output includes a subject line, preheader, and full body text, designed for a personal and useful tone without hype.

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Email
ChatGPT

Personal Essay Newsletter: From Experience to Creator Lesson

This prompt helps solo creators draft a complete personal essay newsletter issue. Turn a recent, specific experience into a transferable lesson for your audience, including a subject line, preheader, structured body, and call to action.

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⭐ Editor's Choice

The featured prompt on this page

One prompt we'd ship today. Read why it works, see a preview, and copy it in a click.

Editor's Choice · Tuned for ChatGPT

ChatGPT Sales Email

Why it works · It pins the role, audience and format up front, so the output reads like a finished draft instead of a brainstorm.

Best use case

Best for writing workflows where four-line cold email with a personalized hook and soft cta.

Expected output

A draft you can edit lightly and ship — not a starting point that needs rewriting.

Open full prompt

Four-line cold email with a personalized hook and soft CTA.

Writing prompts help you create articles, emails, scripts and long-form content faster — without losing your voice. Each prompt in this category has been tuned to give frontier models clear structure, tone and constraints.

Browse curated prompts optimized for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Whether you're shipping a newsletter, drafting a blog post or rewriting an email, you'll find a starting point that just works.

New to prompting? Start with our blog post and email templates — they're the most copied and easiest to adapt to any topic or audience.

Editorial

The writing prompt library, explained

Welcome to the Writing hub. You'll find 86 writing prompts organised by use case, ranked by quality and tagged with the AI models that handle each task best. The collection is curated, not generated — every prompt has been written by humans, tested against real workflows and refined based on what actually ships.

These prompts are built for writers, editors, marketers, founders and anyone who ships words for a living. They work across the major AI models — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and the leading image and video generators — and they hold up whether you're prompting in a chat window, an editor extension or a workflow tool. Reach for these when you need a strong first draft fast — blog posts, emails, newsletters, scripts or social posts.

Why these prompts work: each one starts with a clear role, names the audience or scene, defines the output format and adds 2–3 hard constraints. That structure is what separates a vague AI answer from a usable one. The library is curated so you don't have to test 30 versions of the same prompt to find the one that actually performs — that work is already done.

Expect a clean, on-tone first draft that needs light editing — not a starting point that needs rewriting. You'll occasionally want to regenerate or refine, especially the first time you use a prompt with your own context. Treat each prompt as a starting structure: the variables and constraints stay, the topic and tone become yours.

Read each prompt before you copy it. Swap the placeholders for your real audience, product and constraints, and add one or two writing-specific details from your own brief. The prompts here are designed to be edited — the more context you bring, the stronger the output.

If you're new to AI prompting in writing, start with the featured prompts at the top of this page — they're the highest-leverage, lowest-friction picks. From there, drop into the use-case hubs below to find the exact workflow you need.

Prompt Writing Guide

How to write better Writing prompts

Six habits that consistently produce stronger AI output. Apply them to any prompt on this page.

  1. 1

    Lead with a clear role

    Tell the model who it is — "You are a senior B2B content editor" — so it picks the right register, vocabulary and structure on the first try.

  2. 2

    Define the reader

    Name your audience, their job title and what they already know. The same prompt produces very different writing for a CFO versus a junior developer.

  3. 3

    Specify format and length

    Ask for the exact deliverable: a 700-word blog draft with H2s, a 4-line cold email, a Twitter thread of 6 tweets. Vague requests produce vague drafts.

  4. 4

    Set the tone

    Use 2–3 tone descriptors plus an example sentence the AI should match. "Confident, warm, no jargon" beats "professional".

  5. 5

    Add constraints

    Cap sentence length, ban filler phrases ("in today's fast-paced world"), require at least one concrete number per paragraph. Constraints raise quality fast.

  6. 6

    Iterate, don't restart

    Reply with surgical edits — "Tighten paragraph 3, keep the rest" — instead of rewriting the prompt. You'll converge in two rounds.

Best Practices

Writing best practices

Apply these in every prompt on this page. Small habits, outsized improvements in output quality.

Pin tone with sample sentences

Paste two sentences in your real voice. Style transfer beats adjectives every time.

Cap sentence length

Asking for sentences under 22 words quietly fixes pace and rhythm.

Require a concrete number per paragraph

Numbers anchor abstract claims. This single rule sharpens most drafts.

Ban filler phrases

"In today's fast-paced world", "navigating the landscape", "unlocking value" — name them and ban them.

Avoid These

Common Writing prompt mistakes

The same handful of mistakes are responsible for most weak AI output. Catch them before you hit send.

  • Asking for "a blog post"

    No topic, no audience, no length. You'll get filler. State the angle, reader and word count.

  • Forgetting the format

    If you don't ask for H2s, meta description and a CTA, you won't get them — and you'll do the structural work by hand.

  • Combining brief and edit

    Write the draft first, then edit in a second prompt. Mixing them produces a draft that's half written and half rewritten.

  • Vague tone instructions

    "Make it engaging" means nothing. Use two adjectives and a sample sentence.

  • Skipping examples

    One example of the output you want replaces a paragraph of instructions.

Pro Tips

Advanced prompt patterns

Side-by-side rewrites that show what separates a weak prompt from a great one.

Instead of

Write a blog post about productivity.

Use

Write a 900-word blog post for engineering managers titled "The 3 meetings every senior IC should decline." Use a confident, direct tone, three H2 sections, and end with a 2-sentence summary plus 5 takeaways.

Why it works: Audience, length, structure, tone and deliverables are all pinned.

Instead of

Make this email better.

Use

Rewrite this cold email to a VP of Engineering. Keep it under 90 words, open with a personalized line referencing their recent hiring post, and end with a 15-minute meeting CTA.

Why it works: Edits become measurable when you state the constraints.

Instead of

Summarise this article.

Use

Summarise this article for a busy CEO in 5 bullets, each under 18 words, and end with one decision the CEO should make based on the content.

Why it works: Format, length and downstream use are all explicit.

Instead of

Write a newsletter intro.

Use

Write a 120-word newsletter intro in the voice of a candid solo founder. Open with a surprising stat, link it to this week's main story (link below), and close with a single question to the reader.

Why it works: Voice, structure and intent are locked.

Instead of

Rewrite this paragraph.

Use

Tighten this paragraph by 30%, ban filler phrases, and keep the original meaning. Return only the edited version.

Why it works: Targeted edits beat generic rewrites.

Instead of

Brainstorm content ideas.

Use

Generate 10 article ideas for an audience of B2B marketing leaders at $5M–$50M ARR companies, each idea framed as a question the reader is already asking.

Why it works: Audience-led ideation produces ideas worth writing.

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