Curate Stories With Claude — Speed Up Your Audience Growth

Makes the case for content curation as a legitimate growth strategy for early-stage writers, then provides a Claude prompt for finding fascinating true stories in any niche.

Key Ideas

Curation works because readers pay with attention for someone to sift through material and surface only the best. Ten universal curation categories (lessons, mistakes, tips, frameworks, stories, people, books, videos, TED talks, podcasts) can apply to any niche. Stories are especially powerful because compelling ones from years ago remain relevant. The article provides a story-finding prompt requiring Claude web search and source citation, plus four ways to frame any curated story (tell it straight, extract a lesson, tie to your niche, use as a hook).

RDCO Mapping

The curation-as-value model mirrors Sanity Check’s approach of synthesizing scattered information into actionable insight. The prompt’s emphasis on cinematic hooks and in-medias-res openings connects to narrative craft techniques applicable to newsletter writing.