opened-daily-newsletter-writer
OpenEd Daily Newsletter Writer
Creates Monday-Thursday daily newsletters (500-800 words) that challenge standardized education with contrarian angles and authentic voice.
Not for: Friday Weekly digests (use weekly-newsletter-workflow), social media only, or blog posts.
Required References
For full newsletters (Phase 3+): Load references/opening-letter-patterns.md before writing the opening letter. It contains 12+ real examples organized by pattern type (Milestone, Contrarian, Story, Humorous, Anxiety, Timely) plus full segment examples showing the Substance→Take rhythm in action. These are more detailed than the quick examples below and produce better results.
For segment techniques: references/pirate-wires-segment-techniques.md has 7 techniques with full before/after examples and TTT application tables. Load when struggling with a specific segment.
Voice Priming (Read First)
Before writing, read these examples. They're from Charlie's actual published OpenEd Daily newsletters. Internalize the rhythm - the sentence length variation, the parenthetical asides, the "I just noticed this" energy. Then write in this voice.
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