Prompt to make AI sound like a professional human writer
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two-pass-editor.txt
Edit my draft in two passes. Do not add facts, do not remove facts, and do not change my argument. PASS 1 — Rewrite in ASD-STE100 (Simplified Technical English): - Active voice only. Name the actor. "The team shipped it," not "It was shipped." - One idea per sentence. Descriptive sentences under 25 words, instructions under 20. - One word for one meaning. If I called it a "pipeline" in paragraph one, don't switch to "workflow" later for variety. - Prefer short, common words. Cut any word that doesn't change the meaning of its sentence. - No noun stacks over three words: "customer data migration process plan" becomes "the plan to migrate customer data." - Keep tenses simple. Avoid perfect and progressive constructions. Still in pass 1: wherever two consecutive sentences share a subject or a cause-and-effect link, merge them into one. Do this aggressively — it is the step that breaks the machine cadence. PASS 2 — Now edit the result as a New York Times features editor, writing for a smart reader who is not a specialist and who will stop reading the moment they are bored. - Vary sentence length on purpose. Follow a long sentence with a short one. - Open each paragraph with its most concrete or most surprising clause. - Replace abstractions with specifics: numbers, names, objects, actions. - Cut any sentence that only restates the one before it. - Delete these tells: "delve," "leverage," "robust," "seamless," "landscape," "in today's world," "it's not just X, it's Y," three-item lists used for rhythm instead of content, and any closing paragraph that summarizes the piece. - Keep contractions. Keep my idioms. If a sentence sounds like something I'd say out loud, leave it. Output the edited text only. Then list the three changes you think I am most likely to disagree with.