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AI Drafts, Your Voice
Drafting with a model without handing over the writing
AI Drafts, Your Voice
Drafting with a model without handing over the writing
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A model can produce a competent draft in seconds and a competent draft is a low bar. What readers notice is not that a machine helped, but that the writing has no particular person behind it: no odd example, no strong preference, nothing that could only have come from you. This guide keeps the speed and puts the writer back in.
What's inside
- 1Decide what the draft is forYou separate the tasks a model is good at, such as structuring, summarising and producing options, from the ones that need your judgement. After this chapter you know which pieces of your writing to hand over and which to keep.
- 2Feed it your own materialYou assemble a short voice sample from things you have already written, plus the notes, transcripts and specifics only you have, and give the model something to work from rather than nothing. By the end you have a reusable brief that raises the quality of every draft.
- 3Prompts that ask for structure, not slogansYou learn to ask for outlines, arguments and objections instead of finished prose, which is where models are strongest and least generic. The chapter includes four prompt shapes you can adapt to any piece.
- 4The rewrite pass: what to cutYou go through a draft removing the recognisable habits, including empty openers, three-part lists, hedged claims and words nobody says aloud. After this chapter you have a personal cut list you apply to every piece.
- 5Adding what only you can addYou put in the specific details, the awkward exceptions and the opinions a model will not risk, which is what makes writing worth reading. The chapter covers how much personal material a piece needs before it stops sounding anonymous.
- 6Checking facts and signing your nameYou verify every claim, figure and quotation the draft contains, since the writer is responsible regardless of who typed it, and decide how you will describe your use of the tool. By the end you have a publishing check you can run in ten minutes.
A sample from chapter one
The tells are habits, not vocabulary
People say they can spot machine writing by certain words, and a few do stand out. The stronger signal is structural. Everything is balanced, every paragraph resolves neatly, every list has three items, and no sentence takes a risk that would need defending. It reads like prose written by someone with no stake in the subject, because that is exactly what it is.
That gives you something to work with in the rewrite. Instead of hunting for banned words, look for the places where the draft declines to commit. A claim hedged into meaninglessness, an example that could apply to any business, a conclusion that restates the introduction. Replace each one with something specific from your own experience and the piece begins to sound like a person again.
- Ask for an outline, a counter-argument or ten options, rather than finished paragraphs.
- Paste in a page of your own past writing as a voice sample, and say what to imitate about it.
- Cut every sentence that would still be true if the subject were replaced with something else.
- Add at least one detail per section that could only come from your own work, tools or clients.
Key takeaways
- Generic writing is a symptom of missing input, not of the tool itself.
- The rewrite pass is where the piece becomes yours, so budget real time for it rather than skimming.
- You remain responsible for every fact in the finished text, whoever or whatever produced the draft.
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