16+ Best ChatGPT Prompts for WritingAll of My Best AI Writing Prompts + The Perfect Prompt Formula (Explained)

I’ve been using AI (and ChatGPT) since it first rolled out and blew all of our collective minds. As a result, I’ve spent literally hours fine-tuning these ChatGPT prompts for writing great content that get me results—ranging from generating entire SEO-optimized blog post drafts, to social copy, content calendars, meta details, and everything in-between.

So without dilly-dallying here, please enjoy my breakdown of all my favorite ChatGPT writing prompts, and what makes for the perfect prompt formula when you go to craft your own prompts:

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Here are all my top ChatGPT prompts for writing, broken down by category, so you can hop around to your heart’s content:

16+ ChatGPT Prompts for Writing (and My AI Prompt Formula)

1. Core Writing Components (The Greatest Hits)
2. Ideation & Planning
3. Research & Opportunity Identification
4. SEO-Optimizing, Improving, Repurposing & Promoting
5. My AI Prompt Writing Formula

Now, let’s dive right in with my greatest hits—the ChatGPT writing prompts I use (and share) most often.

Core Writing Components: My Fundamental ChatGPT Writing Prompts

One of the best ways to think of ChatGPT, is as a powerful writing assistant. It’s not a replacement for you, and it never will be (because it can’t).

However, AI blogging tools like ChatGPT do a fantastic job of laying a foundation, crafting first draft components, and allowing you to dodge blank page mania for one more day… or steering clear from throwing your typewriter across the room…

Here’s how to use ChatGPT to quickly generate useful first drafts for the core components of your writing—introductions, conclusions, outlines, sections within your articles, full articles, and FAQ content that’ll help you help your audience, faster.

1. Introductions

First up, writing introductions with the help of AI. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I’m just not feeling inspired when I sit down to write. Even if I have the kernel of a good idea, it helps me to get some inspiration on ways I could start my blog post. ChatGPT is great for that.

Here’s my ChatGPT prompt for writing introductions that don’t suck, and give you a great starting point to begin your writing process. I also have a free AI blog introduction writer you can use, too.

Here’s what this ChatGPT writing prompt looks like in action, generating an introduction for a blog post (I need) about meditation tips:

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2. Conclusions

All great blog conclusions share one thing in common: they effectively call your reader to action. Someone who makes it to the end of your article, is highly engaged with what you’re sharing. This ChatGPT prompt for writing action-oriented conclusions, will steer you in the right direction, to building deeper relationships with your readers.

And here’s a preview of what you can expect ChatGPT to do, using this conclusion prompt:

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3. Outlines

Let’s say you have the right blog post idea already loaded up and ready to go… but you’re not so sure about all the details the article should cover. I recommend outlining as much of an article from your own base of knowledge & experience when you can—but in those times when you could use a little inspiration, this ChatGPT prompt for writing an outline, will give you some fantastic starting points to consider.

Here’s a preview of what you can expect with this ChatGPT prompt for writing article outlines:

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4. Sections of Articles

Another great use case for AI tools like ChatGPT, is in creating smaller chunks of content (think paragraphs and header sections), that take your stance on a particular topic, then expand a bit—giving you more to work with and weave into your articles.

Using this ChatGPT prompt to write sections of your content, here’s an example of what you can expect:

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5. Full SEO-Optimized Articles (First Drafts)

Ah yes, writing full SEO-optimized articles using ChatGPT. I knew why you were really here.

I have an entire guide to my personal AI blogging process that goes deeper on my thoughts around how to best utilize tools like ChatGPT and RightBlogger to write blog posts with the help of AI—but the key takeaways are two things:

• Treat AI-generated blog posts as first drafts: We’ve all seen the imperfection of AI on full display more times than we can count, and nothing is more true than if you give AI very little direction to work with, it’s going to be wildly unpredictable in its output. The more guidance you give it (in the form of a detailed prompt), the better your first draft will be, but it’ll always be a first draft, because…
• Weave as much of yourself & your take into the creation process as possible: AI doesn’t have a lived body of human experience, it can’t draw on the real examples inside your head, and it won’t be able to tap into your human emotion. It’s an imitation of all these things, and in that sense it’ll always be non-human. Full articles from sources like ChatGPT and RightBlogger can be pretty impressive, but they still need your editing, your style, real-life examples, stories, and personal experiences.

The first step to writing an SEO-optimized first draft article that uses real-time Google search data, is crafting a great outline.

Step 1: Generating a detailed, SEO-forward outline for ChatGPT to use as a foundation.

Here’s step one of writing a full article draft using ChatGPT, focusing in on creating a great outline first:

Step 2: Make edits to refine your outline.

Interact with ChatGPT to make any necessary edits and revisions to the outline you’ve created.

Please don’t skip this step, it’s crucial to making sure you’re injecting your take, beliefs, style, personality, and experience into the AI writing process. Without you, I can promise your ChatGPT outputs will sound more like AI and be a total pain to level up during your editing process.

Step 3: Write the full first draft of your article using the dialed in outline you’ve created.

And here we go—a preview of what ChatGPT’s doing with this prompt. Not bad, but could use a whole lot of love in the formatting department:

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If you dig these ChatGPT writing prompts, you’ll find even more in my roundup of all my top ChatGPT prompts for bloggers, too.

6. FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)

Researching the most frequently asked questions on a topic you’re considering writing about, is one of the best ways to create genuinely helpful content that real people are already searching for answers about. Use this ChatGPT writing prompt to get the best FAQs (and their answers) in seconds:

Here’s what you can expect from this ChatGPT prompt for writing relevant FAQ content:

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Ideation and Planning ChatGPT Writing Prompts

For me, when great ideas are flowing, they usually come in huge waves and I do my best to capture all of them—even if it’s in the form of a quick audio note or jotting them down in my creative journal if I’m away from my studio.

Yet other times, I can feel totally uninspired. It’s a crazy hot & cold thing sometimes, being a creator.

In times of need, I’m a big fan of turning to tools like ChatGPT to stock me back up with potential ideas and plans for shaking myself out of a creative funk. Here are my favorite prompts for just such occasions.

7. Article Ideas

When your content calendar is running low, and you’re not feeling particularly creative, try using ChatGPT as a tool to spark your fire again. Here’s my ChatGPT prompt for getting a crop of new article ideas within my niche:

Here’s what a slightly tweaked version of ChatGPT ideation prompt looks like in action (you’ll get very similar results):

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8. Content Plan + Publishing Schedule

Knowing what you’re going to publish, and when, is a great practice to keep once you’re running a content-fueled business that shows a clear ROI for your time spent creating great content. Here’s my ChatGPT prompt for creating a content plan (aka publishing schedule):

Here’s one example of what this ChatGPT content planning prompt looks like in practice:

Now, let’s dive into using ChatGPT for research and identifying opportunities where you could create content that’ll attract an audience.

Research and Opportunity Identification ChatGPT Writing Prompts

If you think you can do more research than AI models that are trained on virtually the entire Internet, then I’d like to be your friend. For the rest of us, we now have ChatGPT to help with more targeted research.

Perhaps one of the top areas where AI writing tools like ChatGPT and RightBlogger really stand out, is in conducting research to figure out the absolute best, audience-informed topics for you to create content about.

Not knowing how to properly research is a common challenge in your early writing days. The right ChatGPT prompts can help activate this powerful assistant and help you maximize your researching time investment.

9. Keyword Research

There’s an entire art and science to doing keyword research, but in the world of AI, you can get some really fantastic, actionable insights from the right ChatGPT prompt. Here’s mine:

Here’s what this ChatGPT prompt for keyword research looks like, in action:

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10. Keyword Clusters

Keyword clusters are a group of related keywords that all have some topical overlap and often, similar search intent. Creating a keyword cluster is a brilliant way to approach mapping out a content strategy that has the potential to rank your writing for tons of terms in your niche. Here’s my ChatGPT prompt for keyword clustering:

Here’s what this keyword clustering prompt looks like inside ChatGPT:

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Now for one of my favorite content research secret weapons—the People Also Ask section of Google search results:

Literally all 4 of these topics would make FANTASTIC articles & videos for a creator in the running or hiking space that wants to earn from affiliate programs. Sheesh, I wish I had more free time…

Anyway, AI tools like ChatGPT and RightBlogger have access to real-time Google search data, so they can quickly perform a search and list out all the most relevant long-tail keyword topics that real people are searching for online—giving you some of the richest, least competitive content ideas to get working on.

Here’s what you can expect with this People Also Ask ChatGPT prompt:

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SEO-Optimizing, Improving, Repurposing, and Promoting Your Content

Once you’ve created your content, there’s still a whole lot more that goes into growing a successful business around your writing.

These are my favorite ChatGPT prompts for everything from SEO-optimization, to promoting my writing, and repurposing it for different formats & platforms.

12. SEO-Optimize Your Writing

SEO (search engine optimization) is the process of thoughtfully finding the balance of writing for humans & search algorithms at the same time. It’s a far more in-depth process than we can cover here, but it essentially helps you tune up an article you’ve written—in a way that gives it the best possible shot at ranking high in Google search results.

This is the ChatGPT prompt I use for optimizing an article that’s already published. Alternatively, if you have the copy from your working draft, you can paste that into ChatGPT and get the same analysis.

Here’s that AI prompt, in action over inside ChatGPT:

You’ll still need to take action on the SEO-optimization suggestions, but you can sleep real good at night knowing these insights come from a deep well of ‘knowledge’ about what Google will rank high in their search results.

13. LinkedIn Posts

I try and post to my LinkedIn at least a few times each week, but sometimes I go literally months without sharing updates or weighing in with my take on something that’s going down in the content creation space. This ChatGPT prompt for writing LinkedIn posts is super helpful in those moments when I’m not feeling inspired.

Here’s an example of what you can expect with this ChatGPT prompt for writing LinkedIn posts:

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14. Tweets (X) Posts

Same story, different platform for me. I used to spend a lot of time on Twitter, but these days, I don’t get as much personal joy out of social media—so when I need some ideas for what to share with my community, here’s the AI prompt I keep handy:

Here’s this ChatGPT prompt for writing tweets, in action:

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15. Grammar and Spellcheck

There’s nothing wurse than hitting publish and having a few unnoticed typos or grammar mistakes sprinkled throughout your writing. Use this ChatGPT prompt for checking your grammar and spelling, in a snap:

This one’s pretty self-explanatory, so no example image necessary—get your content edited & cleaned up by a powerful AI assistant.

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16. Content Gap Analysis

Ever wonder why some articles outrank yours in Google search results and drive more traffic as a result? Well, it turns out AI tools like ChatGPT and RightBlogger (our Content Gap Analysis tool is sick), are absolutely fantastic at conducting this kind of analysis & reporting back with actionable takeaways to improve your writing in the eyes of search engines. Here’s my content gap analysis prompt:

Here’s a preview of what this content gap analysis prompt will generate for you:

We have an even more powerful Content Gap Analysis tool inside RightBlogger that utilizes multiple different data sources and complex prompting. I know you’ll dig it if you give it a try.

My AI Writing Prompt Formula (to Get Better AI Outputs)

If snagging some good prompts is like being handed a fish, then learning the skill of prompt engineering and how to use ChatGPT like a pro, is like teaching yourself to fish. Oh, and you can even use DALL-E inside ChatGPT to generate unique stock images. Not bad…

Learning to prompt is a skill, and a great investment in your future as a writer, to learn how to weave in powerful AI tools to your process where it makes sense for you.

Here’s my ChatGPT prompt formula that’ll significantly level up the outputs of any prompt you give it:

1. Task: This one is straightforward. Tell the AI what you need. It could be writing an intro, drafting a blog post, or generating ideas.
2. Context: Give as much background and detail as possible at this stage. The more specific you are, the better. Let the AI know details that are important to the task (like what your take is on a subject you’re writing about).
3. Exemplar: Just a fancy way of saying “example.” Explain to ChatGPT exactly what kind of output you’re looking for. Including real examples will help it get closer to what you envision.
4. Persona: Who should the AI “be” while writing this content for you? Imagine that AI can wear different hats for different tasks. Explain who it is within your prompts, and it’ll have a much better understanding of how to go about creating your output.
5. Format: Share which format you want the final product to come in. What exactly should the AI output look like? Do you want a list, a paragraph, a blog post with multiple sections, maybe just some bullet points? Be specific here.
6. Voice: Always define the style and tone when you’re writing a ChatGPT prompt. Do you want your output to be casual, formal, playful, something much more nuanced? Let these tools know, so your writing outputs will match your vibe.

If you can nail these elements at a high level within your ChatGPT prompts, then I can promise this AI prompt formula will serve you well.

Drop any questions or share your experiences with AI in the comments. Let’s help each other grow and write amazing content!

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