Revise a full draft through structural, line, and proof passes
Fixing sentences before fixing structure means polishing paragraphs that get cut in the next pass.
- Outcome
- A finished piece revised through three distinct passes, in the right order, so structural problems get fixed before line-level polish and typos get caught last, once nothing else is changing.
- Time
- 2-4 hours across sessions, depending on draft length
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Revising sentence-by-sentence in a single pass means polishing prose in sections that later get cut, reordered, or cut entirely once a structural problem is noticed — wasted effort spent on the wrong layer of the draft at the wrong time. This playbook runs revision in the order that actually saves effort: structure first (what should exist, in what order), then line-level polish (how it's said), then proofreading last, once nothing else is still changing.
When not to use this
For a short piece where structural problems are unlikely, or a piece you're confident is already structurally sound, skip straight to a line-level pass — this staged process is for longer or more complex drafts.
Did this work?
Structural issues get identified and fixed before any line-level polish happens, so no sentence gets carefully rewritten in a section that later gets cut or reordered.
Tested on claude-opus-5. Evidence status is draft; it moves to battle-tested only on recorded runs, never by hand.