Four passes beat one request
Asking for a 2000-word document in 1 message produces even, generic prose. Splitting the work into structure, section drafts, connective passes and a final tightening gives you control at each stage and a text that keeps your material rather than the model's.
The failure of a long single-shot request is not length but uniformity: every section gets the same weight, the same rhythm and the same depth, regardless of which parts you actually know something about.
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Pass 1: structure only
Ask for an outline with 1 sentence per section stating what that section argues. Correct the outline before any prose exists. This is where the document is actually decided, and it costs 200 words instead of 2000 to change.
Pass 2: sections separately
Draft 1 section per request, with the outline and your raw notes for that section attached. Separate requests keep your material in front of the model instead of 40 pages behind it, and they let you spend more effort on the sections that matter.
Pass 3: the joins
Paste the assembled sections and ask only for transitions and for removal of repetition between them. Sections written separately repeat each other, and this pass exists to fix exactly that without rewriting the content.
Pass 4: tighten with a number
Ask for a specific reduction, such as 15 per cent shorter with no claim removed. A named target produces real cutting; asking to tighten produces a rewrite of similar length. This is the pass that removes the padding the earlier passes introduced.
Questions a buyer asks
Is this slower than 1 request?
In messages, yes. In time to a usable document, it is faster, because a single-shot draft usually needs a rewrite you cannot direct.
How long should a section be?
Short enough that you can read the reply carefully: 300 to 500 words. Beyond that, review quality falls and errors survive into the final text.
Can I skip the outline pass?
You can, and it is where most of the value is. Correcting a structure costs a line; correcting a finished document costs the document.
Start with the outline and 1 sentence per section.
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