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Hey rebel solopreneurs 🦸♀️🦸♂️
Three posts a week for two months.
Clean formatting. Solid advice. Real experience behind every word.
And nothing. No replies. No DMs. Comments from the same three people.
Here's the thing — the problem wasn't the content.
The problem was the format.
Advice posts inform. Story posts sell.
The solopreneurs getting DMs every week aren't necessarily smarter or more experienced.
They just figured out how to wrap what they know in a story that makes strangers feel something.
There's a way to write that story in 10 minutes.
🧩 You provide:
One ordinary moment from your day or week — doesn't need to be dramatic
A short writing sample (200–500 words) from a writer whose storytelling style you admire
🍿 What you get:
First — a style guide that breaks down exactly how your chosen writer tells stories (voice, rhythm, sentence structure, and their signature moves)
Then — a complete original story written in that style, built around your moment, with a lesson that connects to your audience
Finally — a ready-to-post story you can drop straight into a newsletter, LinkedIn post, or Twitter thread
⛳️ Here's the scenario
Taylor ran a one-person HR consulting practice.
He helped small business founders keep their best employees without trying to match big-company salaries.
He attracted clients through LinkedIn — posting three times a week.
The posts were solid. Practical. Well-formatted.
But they felt like articles, not conversations.
No replies. No DMs. No one saying "this is exactly what I'm dealing with."
He'd tried writing stories before.
Every attempt started the same way — him staring at a blank screen, wondering if anything from his week was interesting enough to write about.
He was at the gym one Tuesday morning, cycling on a stationary bike.
The guy next to him glanced over.
"I read your post last week — the one about the resignation letter."
Turned out he'd been running content strategy for B2B companies for fifteen years.
He looked at the phone in Taylor's hand. Then he took a gym receipt from his pocket.
"Show me one of your recent posts."
Taylor handed it over.
❌ What Taylor had: "Small businesses struggle to compete on salary. The solution is focusing on culture and growth opportunities instead. Here are three things you can do to retain your best people."
✅ What it became: "I remember the exact moment I heard it. Monday morning, 9 AM call. My client said three words. 'She's leaving too.' Third person in six months. He'd raised salaries twice. It wasn't working. Here's what I told him — and it had nothing to do with money. The employees leaving weren't chasing a number. They were chasing a feeling. The feeling that someone was watching them grow. Most founders give their best people a raise. The best founders give them a reason to stay."
Same experience. Completely different feeling.
Taylor stared at it.
"How did you do that?"
"George Ten built his whole business on this," the man said.
"He calls it three ingredients — the event, why it stuck with you, and the lesson that makes your reader feel something about their own life."
"Knowing the ingredients isn't the hard part," Taylor said.
"Right," the man said. "So skip straight to the cheat code. Find a writer who already tells stories brilliantly. Feed their writing to your AI. It builds the style guide in seconds — then writes your story in the same voice."
He slid the receipt across the handlebars.
"One prompt. Both steps at once. The AI holds the style guide and writes with it in the same session."
Taylor opened his AI sidekick and got to work.
🎯 Step 1: Build the style guide and write your story
⏱️ 10 minutes
This prompt does two things in a single run.
First, your AI sidekick reads the writing sample you give it and builds a style guide — breaking down voice, rhythm, sentence structure, and the signature moves that make the writer recognizable.
Then, using that style guide, it writes a complete original story around your moment.
No pasting between prompts. No extra steps. One shot.
Here's what it produces:
❌ Before: "Last week a client told me they'd lost another employee to a bigger company.
I've seen this a lot. Small businesses struggle to compete on salary.
The solution is to focus on culture and growth instead.
Here are three things you can do to retain your best people."
✅ After: "I remember the exact moment I heard it.
Monday morning. 9 AM call.
My client — founder of a 12-person company — said three words.
'She's leaving too.'
Third person in six months.
He'd raised salaries twice already. It wasn't working.
Here's what I told him — and it had nothing to do with money.
The employees leaving weren't chasing a number. They were chasing a feeling.
The feeling that someone was watching them grow.
Most founders give their best people a raise.
The best founders give them a reason to stay.
[The one conversation that changes retention — and costs nothing →]"
[Taylor's AI sidekick completed the full post with an opening hook variation and a CTA line...]
Here's the prompt that did that:
I want to write a story for my content — newsletter, LinkedIn post,
or Twitter thread.
Step 1 — Analyze this writing sample and build a style guide:
Writing sample: {Paste 200–500 words from a writer whose storytelling
style you want to learn from — e.g. a newsletter, a social post,
a blog article. George Ten, Morgan Housel, James Clear — anyone
whose style you admire.}
Focus on:
- Voice and tone (casual, authoritative, warm, blunt?)
- Sentence length and rhythm (short punchy lines? long flowing ones?)
- How they open a story (action first? question? scene-setting?)
- Signature moves (specific phrases, punctuation patterns, recurring
structures that feel distinctly them)
- How they land the lesson (direct statement? question? subtle hint?)
Step 2 — Using ONLY the style guide you just built, write a complete
original story about my moment:
My moment: {Describe what happened in 2–3 sentences. E.g. "A client
called me in a panic about losing another employee. I asked one
question and the whole conversation shifted. He hadn't thought about
it from that angle before."}
My impression: {Why did this moment stick with you? What surprised
you, moved you, or made you see something differently? 1–2 sentences.}
My lesson: {What does this story say about life, work, or your reader's
situation? What's the point that makes them feel something about
their own world?}
My audience: {e.g. small business founders who want to keep their
best employees without matching big-company salaries}
Format: Write the story as a short-form post — under 250 words.
Open with the most interesting moment. Follow a clear beginning,
middle, end. End with one line that connects the lesson to my reader's
world. No filler. No bullet points — pure story.
Finally — review what you've written and check: does the opening
make a stranger want to keep reading?
If not, rewrite the first two lines until the answer is yes.
Show me both versions and pick the stronger one, explaining in
2–3 sentences why it will land better with my audience.
Taylor ran it with a writing sample from George Ten's newsletter and a story from his own week.
The AI built the style guide in seconds.
Short punchy lines. Present-tense openings. A lesson that hit like a quiet gut punch.
Then it wrote the story.
He read it twice.
It sounded nothing like his old posts.
It sounded like something he'd actually want to read. (Not even kidding — he screenshot it before publishing.)
🏆 Taylor's results
Before:
Posts that read like advice articles — technically solid, completely forgettable
No replies, no DMs, no one sharing or asking to work with him
Blank screen every time he tried to write a story from his week
After:
One complete story — built around a real moment — ready to post
First post using the new approach got 14 comments and 3 DMs asking about his services
A system he could repeat: every week, one moment + one prompt = one story
Total time: 10 minutes. Not 3 days of staring at a blank document.
His AI sidekick reverse-engineered a master storyteller's voice and wrote the story.
Taylor made the call on which moment to use. BAM.
One prompt.
Give it a writing sample from someone you admire and a moment from your week.
It gives you a complete story — in that writer's voice — ready to post.
That's it, my fellow outliers!
Yours 'helping you automate the boring stuff' Vijay Peduru 🦸♂️