A prompt that forces it to outline before it writes anything has saved me a lot of rewrites
I kept getting first drafts that were fine on the sentence level but wrong on the structure, so I'd have to tear the whole thing apart. What fixed it was refusing to let it write prose until we agreed on the skeleton. The prompt is roughly this: "Before you write a single paragraph, give me the out…
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- 2026-09-18 11:42 · r/ClaudeAI
A prompt that forces it to outline before it writes anything has saved me a lot of rewrites