Generic text reads as generated because it has no habits in it. Your habits are already written down — in your sent mail, your old posts, your messages. Copy four of them and the text starts sounding like you.
Read three things you wrote and liked. Count: how many words before your first full stop, whether you use contractions, whether you start sentences with 'And' or 'But', what you call the reader, how you end. Most people have four or five stable habits they have never noticed.
Those habits are the whole voice. Adopting someone else's produces pastiche; keeping your own keeps the text yours even when a model did the rewriting.
Vague instructions fail: 'write in my voice' means nothing to a model. Specific instructions work: 'sentences average twelve words, one in five is under six words, no adverbs, second person, no exclamation marks, ends on a flat statement'. Constraints are checkable, and checkable instructions change output.
Generating from a blank page always drifts toward the average. Editing your own draft keeps your structure, your facts and your emphasis, and only replaces the surface. If you have nothing to edit, write six bullet points first — that is enough of a spine to hold a draft.
| What people usually write | What it looks like after |
|---|---|
| Our team is passionate about delivering exceptional value to our clients through innovative solutions. | We answer email within a day. If we miss that, tell me and I will fix it. |
| Leveraging decades of combined experience, we help businesses navigate their digital transformation journey. | Three of us. Fourteen years between us doing this badly, then well. |
| I am confident that my unique combination of skills makes me an ideal candidate. | I have done this exact job before, badly the first year. Here is what I would do differently. |
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See what it does Pricing — US$15/monthAround 500 words in the same kind of writing. Less than that and the model regresses to the average.
Yes, if the reference text is in that language. Patterns do not transfer across languages.
Usually about the same, and faster. The reason to do it is volume, not quality.