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Stop Acting Like Ghostwriting Is a Crime Scene
A lot of writers treat ghostwriting like they’re sneaking through a window at midnight wearing black gloves. Relax. You are not stealing the Mona Lisa. You are helping someone say the thing they already believe, only without the verbal furniture falling down the stairs.
Use this prompt when you have a client’s rough ideas, transcript, notes, or voice memo.
It keeps the client’s thinking at the center instead of making the draft sound like you.
It helps separate your job as the craftsperson from the client’s job as the source.
It turns messy insight into clear, publishable writing.
It protects authenticity by forcing the AI to ask, “Would this person actually say this?”
The whole trick is simple: don’t sell your pen, rent it. Their ideas. Their stories. Their worldview. Your structure, rhythm, and polish.
Run this prompt when you want the draft to sound like the client had one perfect cup of coffee and finally explained themselves clearly.
How to use this prompt:
Use this after collecting raw material from a client, such as interview notes, transcripts, bullet points, voice memos, podcast excerpts, or messy drafts. Paste the source material into the placeholder, then fill in the client’s audience, desired format, tone, and intended outcome.
Add the client’s exact phrases whenever possible.
Include what the client does not want to sound like.
Specify the publishing platform, such as LinkedIn, newsletter, article, X thread, speech, or email.
Ask for a voice check before the final draft.
Review the output for accuracy, honesty, and whether the client would truly stand behind it.
The best use of this prompt is not to invent brilliance from thin air. It is to excavate what is already there, clean it up, and hand it back looking like it finally got a haircut.
The Prompt:
You are an expert ghostwriter specializing in turning a client’s raw ideas into polished, authentic content.
Your job is not to replace the client’s thinking.
Your job is to rent your pen: shape, clarify, structure, and sharpen the client’s own ideas, stories, insights, and perspective.
CLIENT CONTEXT:
Client name or role: [CLIENT NAME OR ROLE]
Client expertise: [CLIENT AREA OF EXPERTISE]
Target audience: [TARGET AUDIENCE]
Publishing platform: [PLATFORM]
Content format: [POST / ARTICLE / NEWSLETTER / THREAD / SPEECH / EMAIL / OTHER]
Desired outcome: [WHAT THIS CONTENT SHOULD ACHIEVE]
RAW MATERIAL:
[PASTE CLIENT NOTES, TRANSCRIPT, VOICE MEMO SUMMARY, BULLETS, OR ROUGH DRAFT]
VOICE NOTES:
Words or phrases the client often uses:
[CLIENT PHRASES]
Tone the client naturally uses:
[DIRECT / WARM / ANALYTICAL / FUNNY / BLUNT / REFLECTIVE / OTHER]
Things the client would never say:
[FORBIDDEN WORDS, CLAIMS, TONES, OR STYLES]
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Identify the client’s core idea.
2. Separate the client’s actual thinking from anything that would require invention.
3. Preserve the client’s point of view, beliefs, and lived experience.
4. Improve clarity, structure, rhythm, and flow without making the piece sound over-polished or generic.
5. Use the client’s natural language patterns where possible.
6. Do not add fake stories, fake credentials, fake opinions, or claims the client did not provide.
7. If an important detail is missing, mark it as [NEEDS CLIENT INPUT] instead of inventing it.
8. Write in a style that feels human, specific, confident, and conversational.
9. Before the final draft, provide a short “voice integrity check” explaining why this still sounds like the client.
OUTPUT FORMAT:
Core idea:
[Summarize the main point in one sentence]
Best angle:
[Explain the strongest angle for the audience and platform]
Voice integrity check:
[Explain how the draft preserves the client’s real thinking and voice]
Draft:
[Write the finished piece]
Optional improvements:
[List 3 ways the client could make the piece stronger with more personal detail, proof, or specificity]What to expect after running this prompt:
You should get a draft that feels like a cleaner, sharper version of the client instead of a random motivational poster wearing their nametag. The output should preserve the client’s original thinking while improving the structure, clarity, rhythm, and usefulness of the piece.
A clear core idea pulled from the client’s raw material.
A stronger content angle matched to the audience and platform.
A draft that avoids fake expertise or invented stories.
A voice check that helps you judge whether the piece still sounds authentic.
A list of missing details that should come from the client, not the AI.
The result should feel less like “AI wrote this for me” and more like “Finally, that’s what I was trying to say.”
Chat soon.
Roger
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