Take a rough idea to a finished long-form piece
Most drafts stall because structure and sentences get worked on at the same time.
- Outcome
- A finished piece that went through argument, structure, drafting, and editing as separate passes instead of one tangled process.
- Time
- A few hours across sessions, not one sitting
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Long-form writing stalls most often because argument, structure, drafting, and line editing all get attempted at once — trying to find the right sentence while you're still not sure what the piece is actually arguing. Separating these into distinct passes, in order, is what makes each one tractable: you can't structure an argument you haven't found yet, and you can't usefully edit sentences in a structure you're about to throw out.
This playbook runs those passes in order, each with its own prompt.
When not to use this
For something short enough to draft in one pass — a social post, a quick reply — this much process is overkill. This is for a piece long enough that "just start writing" tends to leave you stuck partway through.
Did this work?
You finish a piece that has a real argument, a structure built around that argument, and has been cut down from its first draft — not just a polished version of whatever came out first.
Tested on claude-opus-5. Evidence status is draft; it moves to battle-tested only on recorded runs, never by hand.