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What is this email really doing?
Before rewriting a draft you have already rewritten twice.
Before you rewrite anything, tell me three things: what I am actually asking for, what the reader will think I want, and where those two differ. Then give me the two-line version that closes the gap. If the draft is already fine to send, say so and stop. Draft:
Making it yours
- Paste your own material where the prompt asks for it. Everything above that line is instruction, not content.
- Delete any rule that does not apply to you. A shorter prompt that fits beats a thorough one that does not.
- If the answer comes back vague, add a line saying what you do not want. Constraints work better than encouragement.
Drafts and replies. Turning notes, long drafts and tangled threads into something short enough to read.
Related prompts
Cut this email in halfYou wrote five paragraphs and the ask is somewhere in paragraph four.Write a subject line that gets it openedThe email is written and the subject line still says "Quick question".Summarise this thread into a decisionForty replies deep and nobody can say what was actually agreed.Turn these bullets into a readable messageYou have rough notes and they need to become something a person will read.Halve this, keep every factA message that grew a paragraph at a time while you were writing it.Put the ask firstFour paragraphs of context and the request hiding at the bottom.
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