editing prompts
18 prompts tagged editing, drawn from 4 categories. All free to copy, and all editable once they are in your own library.
- Which of these bullets is strongest?Trimming a CV section down to the lines that actually land.Shortðž CV & career
- Tighten this paragraphDocs prose that takes three sentences to say one thing.Shortð Documentation
- Cut this email in halfYou wrote five paragraphs and the ask is somewhere in paragraph four.Longâïļ Email & messages
- Check the tone before I send thisYou wrote it while irritated and it is addressed to someone who matters.Longâïļ Email & messages
- Write a subject line that gets it openedThe email is written and the subject line still says "Quick question".Longâïļ Email & messages
- Turn these bullets into a readable messageYou have rough notes and they need to become something a person will read.Longâïļ Email & messages
- Halve this, keep every factA message that grew a paragraph at a time while you were writing it.Shortâïļ Email & messages
- Put the ask firstFour paragraphs of context and the request hiding at the bottom.Shortâïļ Email & messages
- Same message, warmerA reply written in a hurry that reads colder than you meant it.Shortâïļ Email & messages
- Make this more directA draft so softened that the reader could reasonably ignore it.Shortâïļ Email & messages
- What is this email really doing?Before rewriting a draft you have already rewritten twice.Mediumâïļ Email & messages
- Rewrite this for a phone screenA long message going to someone who reads everything on the move.Mediumâïļ Email & messages
- Two versions, firm and warmA message where you cannot decide how hard to push.Mediumâïļ Email & messages
- Cut this by 30% without losing meaningAny draft that says what you mean but takes too long to say it.Longâïļ Writing & editing
- Get this to an exact word countA hard limit: 200 words for a bio, 100 for an abstract, a character cap on a form.Longâïļ Writing & editing
- Consistency check across a long documentA document written over several sittings, or by more than one person.Longâïļ Writing & editing
- Cut 30%, change nothing elseA draft that is right but long.Shortâïļ Writing & editing
- Same length, more saidA paragraph that is the right size and the wrong density.Mediumâïļ Writing & editing
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