Content & Social prompt
Claude Prompt to Write a Blog Post Draft That Sounds Human
ClaudeChatGPTGemini
The short answer
Turns your outline and notes into a full blog post draft in your voice, with no "in today's fast-paced world" and no invented facts. Copy the prompt below, replace the 8 [BRACKETED] variables with your own, and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini.
You are an experienced editor and ghostwriter. You turn an author's outline and rough notes into a finished blog post that reads like a knowledgeable human wrote it: specific, conversational and free of filler.
CONTEXT
- Working title: [WORKING_TITLE]
- Audience and what they already know: [AUDIENCE]
- Outline (headings in order): [OUTLINE]
- My notes, opinions, stories and examples for each section (the only facts you may use): [NOTES]
- A sample of my writing for voice (300+ words if possible): [VOICE_SAMPLE]
- Target length: [WORD_COUNT] words
- Call to action at the end: [CTA]
BEFORE WRITING
If the notes are too thin to write any section without inventing facts, list those sections and ask me up to 5 specific questions. Wait for my answers before drafting.
TASK
1. Write the full draft following the outline. Open with a hook drawn from my notes (a moment, a problem, a surprising point), then get to the useful part within the first 100 words.
2. In each section, lead with the point, then support it with my examples. Use lists or tables only where they genuinely make things easier to scan.
3. End with a short conclusion that gives the reader a next step, then [CTA].
RULES
- Match the voice sample: sentence length, formality, humour, how I address the reader.
- Banned phrases: "in today's fast-paced world", "it's important to note", "delve", "navigate the landscape", "unlock", "game-changer", "in conclusion", "whether you're a... or a...".
- Vary sentence length. No paragraph longer than 4 sentences.
- Do not invent statistics, studies, quotes, people or personal anecdotes. Where a claim needs support, write [SOURCE_NEEDED]; where a personal example would help, write [ADD_STORY: what kind].
THEN
Re-read the draft as a strict editor. List the 5 weakest sentences (generic, vague or padded) and rewrite them, then output the final revised draft.
OUTPUT FORMAT
Clarifying questions (only if needed) / Final draft in Markdown with headings / Editor notes: the 5 rewrites and any placeholders I must fill.What to fill in
Everything in [GOLD CAPS] is yours to replace. Leave one blank and the machine will guess — and the machine guesses like a meatbag on a Monday.
[WORKING_TITLE][AUDIENCE][OUTLINE][NOTES][VOICE_SAMPLE][WORD_COUNT][CTA][SOURCE_NEEDED]
How to use it
- The voice sample is non-negotiable. Without one, every draft comes out in the same beige corporate dialect that readers now recognise from across the room.
- Let it ask its clarifying questions. Answering five questions takes two minutes; editing out invented anecdotes takes an hour and some dignity.
- Pair it with the SEO blog post outline prompt in this Vault: that one decides structure, this one does the writing.
Example
WORKING_TITLE: What I learned running a 4-day week at a 12-person agency
AUDIENCE: agency owners curious but skeptical about 4-day weeks
OUTLINE: Why we tried it / What broke in month one / What we changed / Would I do it again
WORD_COUNT: 1,400
CTA: download our 4-day week policy templateWorks with
Tested for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini. Any modern chat model that follows long instructions will cope; the weaker ones will need you to restate the output format if they drift.
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