7 Prompts for ChatGPT to Improve Your Content Writing (Without Sounding Robotic)
There’s a good chance that your content isn’t realizing its full potential. Your tweets might benefit from more bite, your LinkedIn updates could be more engaging, and your website copy might paint a more vivid narrative. However, the demands of running a business often leave little room for more than a hurried initial draft. While it may seem better to share something rather than nothing, hastily publishing a rough draft isn’t the optimal choice. This is where ChatGPT steps in as a game-changer.
Dickie Bush, a former hedge fund trader turned digital wordsmith, has guided over 10,000 people on their writing journey through Ship30For30.com. Focused on digital business and personal growth, he provides insight and advice to entrepreneurs and creators who wish to make writing their forte. Through cohort-based programs and training sessions, he addresses issues such as carving out writing time, preventing overthinking, and tackling common obstacles that beginners encounter. With the advent of ChatGPT, Bush started integrating it into his teaching, sharing the insights gleaned with his learners.
Rather than relying on ChatGPT to generate your content from the ground up, utilize it as a tool for refining your work. Improving the persuasiveness or informative nature of your content can make sure it meets your pre-established objectives, giving your work a clear sense of direction. Bush invested 20 hours working with ChatGPT and identified 7 key “goals” as the best directives to use when requesting a rewrite. Here are the prompts that will equip you to publish with greater confidence.
More Convincing On your sales pages particularly, ensure your writing doesn’t miss the convincing edge required to move your inventory. While you might have aptly laid out the problem and adequately detailed the features and benefits, a dash of convincing charisma could mean the difference between converting a visitor into a customer or losing them to another tab.
Bush recommends using this prompt with ChatGPT: “Transform my text into dynamic, persuasive prose that compels my readers to act without hesitation.”
For the Information-hungry For those readers eager for more insight, ensure you provide them with a full meal. Even if your content covers the basics, some readers crave the granular details to fully comprehend the subject. If your writing style is succinct and straight-to-the-point, turn to your friend ChatGPT (affectionately called “Chad”) to inject the embellished language that might not be your natural go-to. To enrich your text with detail, Bush suggests this prompt: “Transform my text into a resource filled with comprehensive, enlightening details that will leave my readers feeling knowledgeable and well-informed.”
More Vivid Exceptional writing should engage all senses, but writers tend to lean towards a few. Catering to diverse learning styles calls for a variety of language use. Integrating auditory, visual, and sensory descriptions into your regular writing will allow more readers to connect deeply with your content. Utilize ChatGPT to enhance your narrative for everyone’s benefit.
Bush advises using the following prompt: “Transform my text into an immersive, vivid narrative that crafts a memorable image in my readers’ minds.”
More Comedic Not everyone is born with a natural knack for humor. Crafting comedy can be work, and that’s where AI comes in. If your attempts at humor are meeting with silence or confusion, seek assistance from ChatGPT to infuse some light-heartedness into your content and extract those elusive laughs. Particularly when writing for a more jovial platform, let ChatGPT reshape your narrative and pick up a few humor techniques for future use.
Humor is serious business when it comes to prompts. Bush suggests: “Transform my text with witty, humorous elements that will leave my readers chuckling and thoroughly entertained.”
More Motivating Passive content tends to inspire passive action. If your sentences meander and your directness leaves much to be desired, readers are likely to mimic your tone and remain in a state of inaction. To induce a leap into action, you need to reframe your style, stoking a fire that inspires them to move. If you desire action, your audience must feel motivated and convinced of the reward waiting for them.
Bush provided this prompt to input into ChatGPT: “Revamp my text with an urgent, action-inciting tone that will prompt my readers to take immediate steps.”
More Expressive Even if you’re detached, the characters in your content should exude enthusiasm. Building narratives around individuals with potent emotions allows them to resonate with the audience. Readers often find themselves championing your cause without quite knowing why. If you’re portraying people, whether it’s you or others, provide them with a compelling mission and lend gravity to their stories.
Cooperate with ChatGPT using Bush’s prompt for expressiveness: “Reformulate my text emphasizing the emotions and sentiments of the characters or subjects I’m describing, enabling the reader to connect and engage with the story more deeply.”
More Succinct This situation might sound familiar: you’re trying to drive home a crucial point, but somehow you keep missing the mark. Instead of delivering a straight story, you’re leading readers on a labyrinthine journey, incorporating irrelevant context and meandering sentences that don’t forward the narrative. Here, ChatGPT steps in with a virtual red pen, pruning away the excess and isolating the essence.
Bush’s advice for achieving brevity is to use the following prompt: “Condense my text into a more succinct and straightforward language, making it more digestible and comprehensible for my readers.”
Don’t let time constraints or lack of editorial support deter you from publishing work that fills you with immense pride. Jot down your ideas, sketch out your thoughts, and then harness the capabilities of ChatGPT to morph the nebulous chaos in your mind into coherent words and sentences that make sense and yield results.
