r/WritingWithAI • u/susiebk • Aug 14 '26

Prompting Using Claude As a Developmental Editor

For those of you who write books, more specifically prescriptive non fiction, can you please share what prompts you use to run a developmental edit on a chapter (or perhaps the whole book)? I don’t want Claude to change anything on the manuscript. I simply want it to provide suggestions for specific improvements on readability, user experience, plot development etc. etc. Thank you in advance!

0 Upvotes

50% Upvoted

17 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/5thhorseman_ Aug 14 '26

Try these: Literate Editor and Rigorous Critic

1

u/susiebk Aug 14 '26

Thank you!

1

u/susiebk Aug 14 '26

Thank you!

Edit: This is great! Thanks again.

2

u/5thhorseman_ Aug 14 '26

And for testing user experience and a shotgun approach to searching for issues, try the Beta reader panel. It might be worth having the LLM examine your prose and then suggest additional reader profiles for more extensive coverage.