20 writing prompts that make the AI sound like you

AI writing reads generic because the model fills every gap with the average sentence. These prompts hand it your reader, your voice and your facts first, so the draft sounds like a person wrote it.

Swap anything in [brackets] for your own draft, notes or reader.

01. Get interviewed before the first draft

Any piece where the specifics live in your head.

I need to write [what you are writing] for [who will read it].

Do not write anything yet. Interview me first. Ask one question at a time and wait for my answer. Ask for specifics a generic draft would miss: numbers, names, what went wrong, what I actually think.

After six questions, or sooner if you have enough, write the draft using only what I told you. Mark anything you had to assume with [CHECK].

02. Match your voice from three real samples

Drafting anything that goes out under your name.

Here are three things I wrote myself:

[paste sample 1]

[paste sample 2]

[paste sample 3]

First, list what makes this voice mine: sentence length, words I use and avoid, how I open, how formal I am, how I handle jokes. Keep it to eight points.

Then write [what you need] in that voice. If a sentence sounds like a press release, rewrite it.

03. Cut it by a third without losing a fact

A draft that says the right things at twice the length.

Cut the text below by about a third.

Rules:
- Keep every fact, number, name and date.
- Cut repetition, warm up sentences, and any line that only says the next line is coming.
- Do not add anything new and do not change my meaning.

After the edit, list what you removed in one line each, so I can put anything back.

[paste the text]

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  1. Find the sentences a reader skips
  2. Rewrite the opening so it earns the second line
  3. Turn rough notes into a draft that keeps your words
  4. Write the email that actually gets a reply
  5. Say no in four sentences
  6. Edit the draft for one specific reader
  7. Flag every claim that needs a source
  8. Strip the AI tells out of a draft
  9. Write ten headlines and rank them against a rule
  10. Turn a long document into one screen for an executive
  11. Get feedback like an editor, not a cheerleader
  12. Rewrite jargon for someone outside the field
  13. Draft the message you have been putting off
  14. Restructure a messy draft into an outline first
  15. Write a social post that does not read like a template
  16. Change the tone without changing the meaning
  17. Have a second model edit the first