Ten prompts to unlock your creativity
A selection of ready-to-use prompts to generate ideas, produce content and move faster on your projects.
A good prompt is rarely clever — it is specific. These patterns work across almost any subject; replace the bracketed parts with your own and adjust from there.
1. Break a blank page
"Give me 10 angles for an article about [subject], aimed at [audience]. For each one, a title and one sentence explaining why it would interest that reader." Ten options are far easier to react to than one.
2. Turn one piece into five
"Here is my article: [text]. Turn it into a LinkedIn post, a newsletter intro, three social captions and a short video script — keeping the same tone." One idea, five formats, one pass.
3. Argue against yourself
"Here is my plan: [plan]. Give me the three strongest objections a sceptical [role] would raise, and how I would answer each one." Much faster than discovering the objections in the meeting.
4. Explain it to someone else
"Explain [complex concept] three times: to a beginner, to a colleague from another field, and to an expert who wants the detail." The version you struggle to write is the one you have not understood yet.
5. Get a picture you can use
"A [subject], [style], [lighting], [camera angle], [aspect ratio], no text." Naming the framing and the light matters far more than piling on adjectives — and asking for no text avoids the garbled lettering.
Conclusion
Keep the ones that work for you: save the conversation, adjust the wording over time, and you end up with a personal prompt library worth more than any generic list.
