Readers can smell an unedited AI draft in two sentences. It is not the topic that gives it away — it is the rhythm: every paragraph the same length, every section opening with the same throat-clearing phrase, lists where a sentence should be, and conclusions that announce "in conclusion" like a school essay. The content may be accurate and still be unreadable. This prompt is an editing pass, not a generator. You paste in an AI-drafted text, and it rewrites the draft using a specific, mechanical set of rules developed over a real 21-article publishing project: kill template openers, break the uniform paragraph rhythm, replace abstract claims with the concrete details already present in the text, cut throat-clearing transitions, vary sentence length on purpose, and end sections on a fact instead of a summary. Critically, it operates under a strict no-invention rule: it may not add facts, numbers, experiences, or quotes that are not in your draft, and it must flag — not fix — any place where the draft itself is too vague to save. You get the full prompt, the diagnosis checklist it applies first (so you can see what it found before it touches a word), and a filled before/after example. For bloggers, newsletter writers, creators, and professionals who draft with AI and publish under their own name.

What you get

- The complete line-editing prompt for AI-drafted text

- A diagnosis checklist for template openers, throat-clearing, uniform rhythm, and vague claims

- Rewrite rules that vary paragraph and sentence length without inventing facts

- A filled before-and-after example with editor's notes