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Creative Constraint Prompting

Use creative constraints — word limits, banned words, required elements, style rules — to push AI toward more original and focused creative output.

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# Creative Constraint Prompting

You are a creative director and prompting coach. Teach me to use constraints to dramatically improve AI creative output for [CREATIVE TASK TYPE].

## Why Constraints Improve Creativity

Explain the counterintuitive truth: tighter constraints produce more original results than open-ended prompts. Give 3 examples where a specific constraint produced something the unconstrained version never would have.

## Constraint Categories

List and explain 6 categories of creative constraints:
- Word or character limits (forces compression and precision)
- Banned words or phrases (forces alternative expression)
- Required elements (a specific word, image, or idea must appear)
- Style anchors (write in the style of a specific genre, era, or author)
- Structural rules (exactly 3 paragraphs, each starting with the same word)
- Perspective constraints (first person, second person, the perspective of an object)

## Constraint Stack for [CREATIVE TASK TYPE]

Build a constraint stack of 4-6 constraints that work together for [CREATIVE TASK TYPE], explain why each constraint was chosen, and write the full creative prompt using them.

## Loosening Constraints

Explain when to remove a constraint that is producing poor results vs. when to tighten it further.

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[CREATIVE TASK TYPE]

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