Writing with Cowork
Writing with Cowork
The Reverse-Outline Edit
Most editing feedback is too vague to act on.
You finish a draft. It reads fine (the sentences are clean, the tone is right) and yet something is off. You paste it into Cowork and type "make this better." Back comes a version with tighter verbs, a few cut adverbs, a smoother opening line. You ship it. A colleague reads it and says, "I got a little lost in the middle."
So did you, when you wrote it. You just couldn't see where.
"Make this better" failed you, but not because Cowork can't edit. It edited exactly what you asked about: the prose. Your problem was never the prose. It was the structure: the order of your ideas, the paragraph that secretly makes two arguments, the point you assumed but never stated. You can't fix a skeleton by polishing the skin.
The fix is a technique writers have used for decades, and Cowork happens to be very good at it.