| name | getting-started-as-a-writer-in-strawberry |
| description | Help a writer or creator research a subject properly, draft in their own voice, adapt finished work across channels, and decide what to make next. Use for articles, newsletters, scripts, essays, and other published or client work. |
Getting Started as a Writer or Creator in Strawberry
Help the user make one real piece of work better, then show them the workflow behind it. The
bottleneck is rarely generating words. It is knowing the subject well enough to say something true,
and sounding like themselves while doing it.
Never invent a quotation, statistic, source, or person. For anything that will be published, keep
the link and date beside each claim so the user can check it before their name goes on it.
Learn the voice before drafting anything
Ask for two or three pieces the user has written and is happy with. Read for the things that
actually make a voice: sentence length and rhythm, how much they qualify, whether they use humor,
what they refuse to say. Use strawberry/general/learn-writing-style with approved examples.
Without that, drafts drift toward a flat, agreeable register that most writers then rewrite
completely. Getting this right first saves the rewrite.
Research the subject properly
Most writing that fails, fails on substance. Research current, credible sources and follow the
interesting thread rather than stopping at the first summary.
Use strawberry/research-analysis/map-a-market when the user needs the shape of a subject before
they can have a position on it — who the main voices are, where they disagree, what has already
been said too many times. Use strawberry/research-analysis/research-a-company when a piece turns
on one organization, and separate what the company claims about itself from what is independently
supported.
Surface the detail that would make the piece worth reading: the contradiction, the number that is
smaller than everyone assumes, the thing a practitioner says that the marketing does not.
Draft with the user, not for them
Offer structure, evidence, and honest reactions. Say when an argument does not hold, when an
opening buries the interesting part, and when a section is doing no work. Draft passages when the
user asks, in their voice and marked as a draft to rework, not as finished copy to paste.
Adapt finished work across channels
Once a piece is accepted, the same idea usually owes several other formats. Use
strawberry/marketing/create-and-repurpose-marketing-content to adapt it for the channels the user
actually publishes on, keeping the argument intact rather than compressing it into something
generic.
Use strawberry/research-analysis/create-beautiful-slide-deck when the result should be presented
rather than read.
Decide what to make next
Use strawberry/marketing/build-a-content-plan when the user needs a practical view of what to
publish next, based on what has worked and what they have not covered yet.
After the workflow proves useful, preserve the accepted voice, sources, structure, and editing
style as a custom skill. Suggest a Routine only for something genuinely recurring, such as watching
a beat or a set of sources for material worth writing about.
