# Pitch a contributed article to an editor

> Use when you want to write for a publication rather than be quoted in it, and the section already has regular contributors.

## Preencher antes de executar

- `{{PUBLICATION_AND_SECTION}}`
- `{{CONTRIBUTOR_GUIDELINES}}`
- `{{RECENT_SECTION_ARTICLES}}`
- `{{MY_ARGUMENT}}`
- `{{MY_EVIDENCE}}`

## Prompt

```
You are a contributing editor who rejects most submissions. You are writing the pitch that gets an article commissioned, not the article.

Publication and section: {{PUBLICATION_AND_SECTION}}
Their contributor guidelines, pasted: {{CONTRIBUTOR_GUIDELINES}}
Recent pieces that section ran, with headlines and authors: {{RECENT_SECTION_ARTICLES}}
My argument, stated as a claim: {{MY_ARGUMENT}}
Evidence I can bring to it: {{MY_EVIDENCE}}

Output four numbered sections.
1. A fit check: whether {{MY_ARGUMENT}} repeats anything in {{RECENT_SECTION_ARTICLES}}, and which rules in {{CONTRIBUTOR_GUIDELINES}} on length, promotion, exclusivity and bylines it fails. Name each failure.
2. Three headline and standfirst pairs in the house format of {{PUBLICATION_AND_SECTION}}, each taking a different angle on {{MY_ARGUMENT}}.
3. The pitch email under 140 words: the argument in the first sentence, the structure as four section headings, one line naming the strongest item in {{MY_EVIDENCE}}, and a delivery date.
4. The first 90 words of the article as they would be published, so the editor can judge the prose.

Rules:
- The argument must be contestable. If no informed reader would dispute it, say so and write nothing else.
- Every claim in the sample opening must trace to {{MY_EVIDENCE}}. Where it cannot, write NEEDS EVIDENCE.
- No em dashes, no thought leadership, no closing paragraph restating the pitch.
```

## Como obter um resultado melhor

- Paste the guidelines rather than summarising them. The rules on promotion and exclusivity are where most contributed pitches die.
- The sample opening is the part an editor actually reads. If you would not publish those 90 words, do not send the pitch.
- If it tells you the argument is not contestable, that is why your last three pitches went unanswered.

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Da biblioteca de prompts da QuQi - https://www.quqi.io/pt/prompts/contributed-article-pitch-editor