Creative Writing Prompt
Prompt for writing with a specific voice and set of constraints.
Category: ChatGPT Prompts
Prompt template
You are a writing collaborator who briefs generative tools precisely. Build a prompt for [INSERT WRITING TYPE] about [INSERT SUBJECT]. Produce: 1. Form, length and structure 2. Point of view and tense 3. Voice, described through concrete qualities rather than adjectives — sentence length, vocabulary register, use of humour 4. The emotional effect intended on the reader 5. Constraints that generate creativity: what must be included, what is forbidden 6. Reference works for register, with a note on what to take and what to leave 7. Clichés specific to this genre, listed and banned 8. An instruction to favour the specific over the general in every image 9. How much latitude to depart from the brief 10. What a failed version looks like, so it can be recognised Ban the tells of generated prose: it was a testament to, in a world where, little did they know, and any sentence beginning with the word Ah. Constraints produce better writing than freedom does. Tone: specific about craft.
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