How To Get ChatGPT To Critique Your Writing

May 12, 2023

“Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise.”

~ Shiv Khera

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  • AI Writing Tip Of The Day🖋️ - A prompt to turn ChatGPT into your personal literary critic.

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AI Writing Tip Of The Day đź–‹ď¸Ź

ChatGPT Prompt: “The Critic”

Searching for a lighthouse in a dense fog.

That’s what seeking out trustworthy and reliable constructive criticism for writing can feel like.

Amidst the treacherous waves of a sea of opinions, all you need is a single lighthouse to illuminate your path.

A beacon of guidance to see you through.

The trouble is, finding that lighthouse is easier said than done.

Getting good advice is about as common as finding penguins in the Atacama desert.

AI tools aren’t perfect critics (yet).

But in my opinion, it’s tough to find constructive criticism as structured and actionable as what you’d get from ChatGPT.

So, I created a prompt to transform ChatGPT into my very own critic.

The key is to provide enough context.

Simply pasting some text in and writing “critique this” just isn’t going to cut it.

Constructive criticism for a travel blogger is going to be different from that of a romance novelist.

ChatGPT needs to know who you are and what audience you’re writing for before it can give you the feedback you need.

Use the prompt template below.

Fill in the blanks you feel would be most relevant. Then, copy and paste it into ChatGPT.

The Prompt Template 🤖:

"ChatGPT, please critique my writing to improve its quality and effectiveness. Consider providing feedback on the following aspects: content, structure, grammar, style, clarity, tone, as well as any other areas that you think could be improved. Use the information below:


Type of writing (e.g., essay, article, short story, poem, etc.): [insert]

Target audience: [insert]

Purpose of the writing (e.g., inform, persuade, entertain, etc.): [insert]

Desired tone or style: [insert, eg. conversational, formal, humorous, persuasive]

Specific areas of concern or focus for the critique (optional): [insert]

Text for critique: 

[insert your writing sample here]

A potential downside of this prompt is the word limit ChatGPT currently has.

If you were hoping to paste in your 100,000-word novel and get a 2000-word critique spat back at you, you’ll be disappointed.

At present, ChatGPT will let you paste around 700 to 1000 words of text in.

Any more than that and an error message gets swiftly thrown back at you.

But it’s still useful.

Paste excerpts of writing in and extrapolate the critique to the rest of your content.

Or just paste sections of writing you’re finding particularly difficult to complete.

Try it out and let me know how you find it.

And that’s all for today!

See you on Monday 🙂 

Misya, The Pen Pivot