Step 4: Draft (15 minutes waiting, 10 reviewing)
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Step 4: Draft (15 minutes waiting, 10 reviewing)
Hand the brief and outline to the newsletter-writer agent:
/newsletter-writer brief="path/to/brief.md" outline="[paste outline]"The agent runs through the multi-draft process described in Module 2 — the ugly first draft, the trimming pass, the empathy pass, the voice and style pass — before producing the final draft. With the Opus model, this takes ten to fifteen minutes.
When it comes back, I read the whole thing. Not a skim — the full read. I’m looking for:
- Does the opening work?
- Is the main argument actually made, or just implied?
- Are there sections that feel like filler?
- Are there specific details from my experience that the agent couldn’t know but would make the issue better?
I typically make five to ten edits at this point. Small ones — a sentence rewritten, a section reordered, a specific detail added that only I could add. The draft is usually about 80% of the way there. The edits get it to 95%.