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Make this concrete
Writing full of abstractions that could describe almost anything.
The text below is too abstract. Find where and fix it. 1. Quote every sentence that would still be true if you swapped the subject for a different company, product or situation. Those are the empty ones. 2. For each, tell me what specific information would make it real: a number, a name, a date, an example, a before and after. 3. Where I have given you enough detail elsewhere in the text, write the concrete version. 4. Where I have not, write the sentence with a clearly marked gap such as [number of users] and ask me for it. Do not invent plausible-sounding specifics. A fabricated statistic is worse than an admitted gap. Text:
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.
Clarity and plain language. Stripping jargon and abstraction until a reader gets it on the first pass.
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