Turn one idea into a publish-ready newsletter before your coffee gets cold

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Hey rebel solopreneurs 🦸‍♀️🦸‍♂️

Most newsletter creators spend hours staring at a blank screen trying to write their weekly email.

They brainstorm ideas. Write a draft. Hate it. Rewrite it. Shelve it. Skip the week entirely.

Smart ones run 5 prompts in under 5 minutes and walk away with a complete newsletter ready to publish.

⛳️ Why this works

Before you can sell anything, you need an audience that trusts you. And newsletters are the #1 way to build that trust.

But here's the problem. Most creators start a newsletter, publish for a few weeks, then disappear. They skip one week. Then two. Then three. And their subscribers forget they exist.

Here's the thing...

Writing a newsletter is like cooking dinner every night.

Most people treat it like a gourmet meal. Fresh recipe every time. Fancy ingredients. Hours in the kitchen. No wonder they burn out by week three.

But meal preppers? They batch. They follow a system. Ingredients ready. Recipe templated. Dinner in minutes.

Newsletter writing works the same way. When you break it into 5 clear steps — idea, outline, style, body, intro — your AI sidekick handles 80% of the heavy lifting. You just steer.

Turns out, systems beat willpower every time. BOOM.

Let's see how Nina figured this out...

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Nina runs a weekly newsletter for solopreneurs.

Well... "runs" is generous. She hasn't published in 3 weeks.

Every Sunday she sits down to write. Opens a blank doc. Stares at it. Types a sentence. Deletes it. Tries another angle. Deletes that too.

Two hours later? Nothing. Just guilt and a closed laptop.

Her list is growing cold. Open rates dropping. Subscribers forgetting who she is.

She knows consistency matters. She just can't figure out how to write fast enough to keep up.

Nina decided to follow these steps:

Step 1: Brainstorm 10 newsletter ideas her audience actually wants Step 2: Build her outline with clear subheaders and action steps Step 3: Train her AI sidekick on her writing style Step 4: Let her AI sidekick write the full newsletter body Step 5: Generate a scroll-stopping introduction

Step 1: Brainstorm ideas her audience actually wants

Nina used to pick topics from her head. Whatever felt right that week.

Problem was... her ideas didn't match what her readers cared about. She'd write about something she found interesting. Crickets. Low opens. No replies.

She needed a way to find ideas that her audience was already hungry for.

Here's what she tried...

The newsletter idea generator prompt

I'm writing an email newsletter for {Target Audience}.

The newsletter format is a listicle (compilation of tips).

It has to be educational, entertaining, and readable in 5 minutes or less.

The best newsletter topics are those that directly appeal to the reader, helping them overcome one specific problem and/or achieve one specific desire.

As an example, if my audience is diabetics with type 2, then a good newsletter article would be "5 Breakfast Ideas To Keep Your Blood Sugar Level Below 180."

If my audience is founders who want to make more money with their SAAS, a good outcome would be "6 Easy Ways To Increase Your SAAS User Retention."

Here's how we'll proceed:

1. Find 10 specific struggles that my audience is facing.

2. Find 10 specific desires my audience wants to achieve.

3. Come up with 10 specific newsletter topics that I can pick from.

Her AI sidekick returned 10 struggles, 10 desires, and 10 newsletter topics tailored to her audience.

No more guessing. No more staring at a blank page wondering what to write about. She picked the topic that excited her most and moved on.

Step 2: Build her outline with subheaders and action steps

Nina used to dive straight into writing. No structure. No plan. Just vibes.

That's why every draft turned into a mess. She'd ramble. Go off-topic. Spend 45 minutes reorganizing paragraphs that didn't fit.

She needed a skeleton first. Something to keep her focused.

Here's what she tried...

The newsletter outline prompt

Let's proceed with ((insert number of the topic you'd like to pursue)).

The goal is to have 3-7 subheaders.

Each section should:

1. Explain the idea in very simple terms

2. Show the potential of what applying this idea will help them achieve

3. Give a concrete example of how this works

4. Conclude with a simple action step the reader can take in 5 minutes or less in each section to make it actionable.

Example 1: If one of the subheaders shows YouTubers how to increase their thumbnail click-through rate, actionable advice would be about creating 2 variations of a thumbnail for a video they already have uploaded and then using a tool to set up an A/B test.

Example 2: If one of the subheaders shows busy managers with sleep problems how to decrease their caffeine levels, actionable advice would be to stop drinking coffee after 1PM and replace it with plain or sparkling water.

Please provide me with an outline I can use to write the newsletter that includes these specific tips:

((Include your own unique ideas here))

Her AI sidekick built a complete outline with subheaders, examples, and action steps for each section.

Now she wasn't staring at chaos anymore. She had a roadmap. Every section had a purpose. Every tip had an example.

Step 3: Train her AI sidekick on her writing style

This was the part that used to drive Nina crazy. Every draft sounded like a robot wrote it. Generic. Bland. Nothing like her voice.

She'd spend more time rewriting the AI's output than if she'd just written it herself.

Then she realized something. She never showed her AI sidekick what her writing actually sounds like.

Here's what she tried...

The writing style trainer prompt

We are going to write the newsletter based on the previous outline. But before you start writing, I'm going to provide you with a sample of my writing.

Here it is:

"Enter your content here"

So here is what I want you to do:

1. Analyze the writing style

2. Match all your further responses in this session to the SAME style

3. Wait for my further instructions.

She pasted one of her best-performing posts. Her AI sidekick analyzed the tone, sentence structure, and rhythm.

Now every output would sound like her. Not like a corporate press release. Like Nina.

Step 4: Let her AI sidekick write the full newsletter body

The outline was ready. The voice was trained. Time to let her AI sidekick do the heavy lifting.

This used to be the part where Nina would spend 2 hours writing, rewriting, second-guessing every paragraph.

Here's what she tried...

The newsletter body writer prompt

Now, let's write the newsletter with the writing style provided and follow the outline.

Each subsection should have a word count of 200 words.

Her AI sidekick wrote the full newsletter body. Every section followed the outline. Every paragraph matched her voice.

Not perfect. But 90% there. She'd tweak a few sentences, add a personal story, and it was done.

What used to take 2 hours took about 30 seconds to generate.

Step 5: Generate a scroll-stopping introduction

Nina had the body. But the intro? That's what pulls readers in. Without a strong opening, nobody reads past the first line.

She needed something that hooks attention and forces people to keep scrolling.

Here's what she tried...

The newsletter intro prompt

Now, let's write a 100 word introduction for the newsletter:

- State the problem with a rhetorical question by openly stating the problem we're solving in the newsletter which is:

"{Problem Statement}"

Don't mention the target audience.

- Talk about a specific situation in the reader's day that illustrates the problem. Start with "You know what I'm talking about:"
- Amplify the problem: show how this can become worse if the problem is not solved.
- Introduce the solution to overcome the problem and achieve the emotional desired outcome. Start with "What if" or "Instead"
- Conclude with a teasing sentence like "Let's see how"

Use very simple words and short sentences. Add line breaks to increase readability. Use the same writing style as provided earlier in the session.

Her AI sidekick nailed it. A punchy, 100-word intro that states the problem, paints the picture, amplifies the pain, and teases the solution.

She dropped it at the top of her newsletter. Done.

🏆 Nina's results after 4 weeks

Before:

• Skipped 3 out of 4 weeks every month

• Spent 2-3 hours per newsletter when she did write

• Open rates dropping to 18%

• Zero replies from subscribers

After:

• Published every single week for a month straight

• Each newsletter took under 5 minutes to draft

• Open rates climbed back to 31%

• Getting 5-10 replies per issue

Her process now:

1. Run idea generator prompt (30 seconds)

2. Build outline with her own spin (45 seconds)

3. Feed writing style sample (20 seconds)

4. Generate newsletter body (30 seconds)

5. Generate intro (20 seconds)

6. Quick personal edits (2-3 minutes)

Total time: under 5 minutes. Not 3 hours.

Her AI sidekick handles the entire first draft in under 2 minutes. BOOM.

🧩 Your turn

Copy each prompt into your AI sidekick. Run them in order.

Start with prompt 1. Pick your favorite topic from the list. Feed it into prompt 2. Paste a sample of your writing into prompt 3. Then let prompts 4 and 5 handle the rest.

Add your own stories and examples during the final edit. That's what makes it yours.

Generation time: under 2 minutes. Time to publish: 5 minutes.

That's it, my fellow outliers!

Yours 'finding high-potent AI shortcuts so you work less' Vijay peduru 🦸‍♂️