How a Professional Writer Writes With AI

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TLDR
Every's Natalia Quintero interviews Katie Parrott on turning a $20 ChatGPT habit into compound writing, a context-file system now packaged as a plugin.
Best for
Owners who write their own emails, posts and newsletters with AI.
The tip
Build context files and style guides before you ask AI to write. That's the part Katie Parrott says makes AI output useful; it starts at 10:59.
What you need
  • ChatGPT (she started on the $20-a-month plan)
  • Claude projects
  • the Compound Writing plugin
The prompt

Interview me to build a style guide for my writing. Ask about my readers, what I sell, words I use and avoid, and three pieces I've written that I like. Then write it up as a one-page context file I can attach to every writing request.

our prompt
Start here
  1. Watch 10:59 on context files and style guides.
  2. Watch 14:15 on what makes a Claude project work.
  3. Try the Compound Writing plugin (github.com/EveryInc/compound-writing).
Filed note
Every's Katie Parrott on compound writing - the context files, style guides and Claude projects she uses to brainstorm, draft and edit with AI, now packaged as a plugin any writer can use.

videoThe source

Moments

  1. Turning AI into a content agency of one.

  2. Building the context files and style guides that make AI output useful.

  3. What compounding means, and how it became the Compound Writing plugin.

  4. Borrowing Vonnegut, Hitchcock and Sorkin as AI editing skills.

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