The blank page problem isn’t a writing problem. It’s a framing problem. This prompt turns “what should I write this week” into five angles worth publishing, in under two minutes.
Topics vs. Angles
There’s a one-sentence distinction that changes how you think about content:
A topic is “social media growth.”
An angle is “posting every day is why your account isn’t growing.”
One is a category. The other is a reason to read. Topics are what everyone writes about. Angles are why someone would read yours specifically.
Most people generate topics and then wonder why their content doesn’t land. The better move is to skip topics entirely and go straight to the angle.
A few more examples to make this concrete. The topic “email marketing” becomes the angle “your welcome sequence is losing more subscribers than your unsubscribe button.” The topic “productivity” becomes “the second task on your to-do list is the one that actually matters.” The topic “AI tools” becomes “the people getting the most from AI aren’t the ones using the most tools.” In each case, the topic is just a container. The angle is the argument. And an argument gives the reader a reason to keep going past the first sentence.
The shift from topic thinking to angle thinking is also what separates content that gets shared from content that gets skimmed. People share things that make them look smart, or that confirm something they suspected but couldn’t articulate. A sharp angle does both.
The Prompt
Find me the angles worth writing about this week. Not topics. Angles. My niche: [one line] My audience: [who they are] My platform: [where you post] 1. The 3 most overdone posts in my niche right now that I should avoid entirely 2. 5 questions my audience is genuinely asking that nobody is answering well 3. 3 contrarian takes a smart person could actually defend 4. For each one write just the first line, the hook that stops someone scrolling Don't give me topics.
Paste this in on Monday morning. Swap in your niche, audience, and platform. Everything else is handled.
Why It Works
The structure forces the model to think in three distinct modes: opposition (what to avoid writing), audience need (what’s going unanswered), and friction (what a smart person would push back on). Those three lenses almost always surface something worth publishing.
The opposition section alone saves time. Most content creators have a vague sense of what’s overdone in their niche, but seeing it written out plainly makes it easier to actively avoid. If you write about productivity and the model hands back “5 AM morning routines, Pomodoro technique explainers, and hustle culture takedowns,” you now have a clear list of things to stay away from for the week. That’s useful even before you get to the ideas you should pursue.
The unanswered questions section is where the real content often lives. These aren’t questions people are asking in think-pieces. They’re the questions in comment sections, in DMs, in forums, in the “dumb questions” threads. The model is good at surfacing these when you give it a specific audience to reason about.
The hook requirement is the part that makes it actually useful. It doesn’t just give you an idea. It gives you the first line. Which means you’re not just unblocked on what to write, you’re unblocked on how to start. For most writers, the first line is the hardest part. Having it handed to you as part of the ideation step removes the second friction point before you even hit it.
Use Cases
- ✍️ Newsletter writers planning a week of issues who need more than one strong angle to choose from
- Solo creators on LinkedIn, X, or Substack who post regularly and feel like they’re recycling the same three ideas
- Content leads building a weekly editorial brief for a small team, where the output from this prompt can seed the whole planning doc
- Anyone sitting on 30 draft ideas with none worth publishing, who needs a forcing function to identify what’s actually worth developing
Prompt of the Day
The full version, ready to paste:
Find me the angles worth writing about this week. Not topics. Angles. My niche: [one line] My audience: [who they are] My platform: [where you post] 1. The 3 most overdone posts in my niche right now that I should avoid entirely 2. 5 questions my audience is genuinely asking that nobody is answering well 3. 3 contrarian takes a smart person could actually defend 4. For each one write just the first line, the hook that stops someone scrolling Don't give me topics.
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or any model you prefer.
Run It Once Before Next Week
If the output feels generic, look at your inputs first. The niche and audience description do most of the work. The more specific those are, the sharper the angles it returns. Vague in, vague out.
Instead of “my niche: marketing,” try “my niche: B2B SaaS founders trying to generate pipeline without a sales team.” Instead of “my audience: small business owners,” try “my audience: service business owners doing 200-500k a year who are stuck trading time for money.” The extra specificity costs you ten seconds and changes the quality of the output significantly. Think of the niche and audience fields less as labels and more as constraints you’re giving the model to reason within.
If you want to push further, run the prompt twice with slightly different audience framings and compare what comes back. Sometimes the second run surfaces angles the first one missed entirely, just because you described the same audience from a different angle.
Run this once. See what comes back. Then decide if it earns a spot in your Monday routine.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How is this different from using a template or Notion doc?
This prompt finds current angles your audience is asking about right now, not generic templates. It discovers trends and gaps in what competitors are doing this specific week. Templates are static starting points; this is a dynamic discovery process that adapts to your niche.
Q: I see there are tools like PromptFlow Pro , should I use those instead?
Both work well. Chrome extension tools are faster if you’re running this constantly (no copy-pasting), but Claude prompts are more customizable and don’t require a paid subscription. Choose based on your workflow , convenience or flexibility.
Q: How often should I run this prompt?
The author runs it weekly (Mondays) and hasn’t hit blank page syndrome in two months. Weekly is ideal for catching trending topics and unanswered questions in your niche. Adjust based on your publishing frequency.
The most useful Claude prompt I’ve found for never staring at a blank page again
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