5 Rules For Better Writing In Claude And ChatGPT

Talk it out first

Explain the idea out loud before you ask AI to write anything. In Claude, press the mic in the message box and talk. Your words show up as text you can edit. ChatGPT has a mic in the message box too. (How Claude’s dictation works) Or record a voice memo on your phone and paste the transcript.

Organize My Voice Memo

Below is a voice memo of me talking through an idea. Organize it into a [email / video script / post], but keep my words, my phrases and my tone. Cut repeats and filler like "um" and "so yeah." Don't add ideas I didn't say. If something is unclear, ask me instead of guessing. [paste your transcript]

Keep it extremely simple

AI loves to overcomplicate, and Claude can run long. Ask for plain language and one idea per sentence. Paste these rules into your project instructions once, so every chat follows them.

Paste Into Project Instructions

Writing rules for everything you write for me: - Use plain words a 12-year-old would know. - One idea per sentence. - Keep sentences short. Most should be under 15 words. - Use fewer words. If a sentence works without a word, cut it. - Say the point first. Skip the warm-up. - Write the way I talk. Use contractions. - No hype words.

Want the full version as a skill? Here’s my Get To The Point skill.

Give it examples in the same format

Your emails sound different from your video scripts, so give it examples of the exact thing you’re making. Anthropic’s own prompting guide calls examples "one of the most reliable ways to steer Claude’s output format, tone, and structure" and suggests 3 to 5.

Match My Examples

I'm writing a [email / video script / post]. Here are 3 [emails / scripts / posts] I wrote myself. Study the tone, the pacing, how long my sentences are and the words I use. Then write [topic] so it sounds like the same person wrote it. [paste your examples]

Want AI to learn your whole voice? Rule 2 in my 10 rules for Claude builds a full voice profile.

Read it out loud, then teach it

If you wouldn’t say it, change it. Then show the AI your edits and have it turn them into rules for next time. Save those rules with the ones from rule 2.

Turn My Edits Into Rules

Here's what you wrote and here's my edited version. Tell me what I changed and why you think I changed it. Then turn those changes into 3 to 5 short writing rules you can follow next time. Keep each rule to one sentence. ORIGINAL: [paste] MY VERSION: [paste]

Get a second opinion

Have a different model review the draft. I check my writing across models with Avori, the platform I built. You can also open a fresh chat, so it has no attachment to what it wrote, and ask it to be tough.

Fresh-Chat Critic

You're a tough editor seeing this for the first time. Tell me the 3 weakest parts of this draft and why. Point out anything that sounds like AI wrote it, anything confusing and anything I could cut. Don't rewrite it. Just give me the notes. [paste your draft]

The open-source Humanizer skill by blader cleans up common AI patterns, like forced lists of three, dashes everywhere and hype words, without changing what you said. Give it a few paragraphs of your own writing and it matches your style too. It’s based on Wikipedia’s list of signs of AI writing.

↓ Download the skill (.zip)

Turn on code execution. In Claude, go to Settings, then Capabilities, and turn on Code execution and file creation. Skills work on every plan.
Upload it. Go to Customize, then Skills. Click the +, then Create skill, then Upload a skill, and pick the ZIP. Don’t unzip it first.
Use it. Say "humanize this" and paste your draft.

Free and open source under the MIT license. I packaged it as a ZIP so it uploads straight into Claude, with no changes to the skill.

Want to spot AI writing yourself? Here are the 38 AI writing tells I ban.

5 Rules For BetterAI Writing

5 Rules For Better
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