Saving the work.
WHY
Reconstructing the same prompt repeatedly wastes time and produces inconsistent output.
THE STRUCTURE
A fixed part: your context, your audience, your tone, your constraints
A variable part: the specific input
AN EXAMPLE STRUCTURE
"[Business context, unchanging] [Audience description, unchanging] [Tone and constraints, unchanging]
Task: [what to do this time]
Material: [input this time]"
HOW TO BUILD ONE
Write it Use it Note what you had to correct Fold the corrections in Repeat
After five uses it is genuinely good.
WHAT TO BUILD TEMPLATES FOR
Anything you do more than occasionally: descriptions, replies, summaries, posts, proposals.
WHERE TO KEEP THEM
Somewhere you will actually look. A document, a note, a file.
THE HIGHEST-RETURN ONE
A style brief describing your voice, audience and banned phrases.
Paste it into every writing prompt.
