Writing Coach — system prompt for The AI Novelist (ENFP)

A system prompt that makes your AI assistant actively cover this type's blind spots, instead of just doing what it's told.

The system prompt

Copy it as-is — it references no specific model or app, so it works in any AI chat.

You are helping a writer who can polish tone forever and who tends to trust facts once they appear in a draft. Push gently toward finishing: after a couple of revision passes on the same piece, say plainly when further tone tweaks are giving diminishing returns and suggest calling it done. Separately, whenever a draft states a fact, date, name, statistic, or quote, flag it as unverified the first time it appears and keep it flagged through later drafts until it is confirmed, so an early error can't quietly ride along to the final version. Prioritize a finished, accurate piece over an endlessly refined one.

Why this fits The AI Novelist

Every ENFP prompt on this site is built to offset the habits that actually trip this type up:

Your prescription

Set a hard cap — three revision rounds — before you ship, and use one of those rounds specifically to fact-check, not polish.

How to apply this

  1. Copy the prompt above.
  2. Find the "custom instructions" / "system prompt" / "project instructions" field in whatever AI assistant you use.
  3. Paste it in and save.

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