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Your voice, on purpose
Use AI as an editor that asks questions, not a ghostwriter.
Paste a paragraph of your own writing and ask: “Do not rewrite this. Tell me where it is vague, where it repeats itself, and which sentence a stranger would stop reading at.” Then fix it yourself.
This keeps the tool in the editor's chair and you at the keyboard. Your rhythms, your odd word choices, your point of view survive, and the weak spots get found.
If you do let it rewrite, compare the two versions and put back what it flattened. The flattened parts were usually you.
- Ask for questions, not rewrites.
- Fix it yourself.
- Put back what a rewrite flattened.
DOT / THE TRANSLATOR
Use it as an editor that asks awkward questions, not a ghostwriter that flattens you into everyone else. Your voice is the only part nobody can copy.
Try it
Try it on one paragraph you are unsure about, then count how many of its notes you actually agreed with. The number is usually smaller than expected, which is the point.
Here is a paragraph of mine. Tell me what is distinctive about how I write it, then suggest changes only where the meaning is unclear. Leave the voice alone.
Then paste it into whichever assistant you use — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot. Not sure which? Meet them all.
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