You know the thing where you know what you want to say, you say it out loud fine, and then you sit down to write it and nothing comes out right? Stop writing. Start dumping. Open a voice-to-text note or just type badly on purpose. Get every thought out in whatever order it falls. Spelling doesn't matter. Then paste the mess in with this: Below is a messy brain dump. I know what I want to say, I just can't organize it. Turn this into a clean (email / post / proposal section / SOP). Keep my actual words and phrasing wherever you can, because it should still sound like me. Do not add anything I didn't say. If something's missing or unclear, ask me instead of filling it in yourself. Here it is: (paste your mess) That last instruction is the important one. Without it you get back something polished and confident that includes things you never said, and you won't catch it because it reads well. This is the prompt I use most. Try it on the thing sitting in your drafts folder right now.

If AI keeps giving you generic garbage, it's almost never the tool. It's that you asked a generic question. Watch the difference. WHAT MOST PEOPLE TYPE: Write me a social media post about my business. WHAT ACTUALLY WORKS: You're writing as me. I run a small bookkeeping business and my clients are restaurant owners who hate paperwork. Write one Facebook post about why they should reconcile their books monthly instead of at tax time. Keep it under 100 words. Conversational, like I'm talking to a friend who owns a diner. No corporate language. End with a question. Four things changed. Who you are. Who it's for. How long. What it should sound like. That's the formula and it works on every tool. Save this and paste it every time: WHO I AM: WHO THIS IS FOR: WHAT I NEED: HOW LONG: HOW IT SHOULD SOUND: Try it today on something you already asked and hated the answer to. Then come tell me if it was better.