Collect your best writing
Pick five to ten pieces you are proud of and that performed well. These are your examples — the most powerful part of any voice guide.
Turn feelings into rules
- Sentence length: “Mostly short. One long sentence per paragraph at most.”
- Person: “Write to one reader as ‘you’. Use ‘I’ for experience.”
- Words we use: plain verbs, concrete nouns, numbers when we have them.
- Words we never use: “game-changer”, “unlock”, “dive in”, “in today’s world”.
Ask AI to describe your voice — then correct it
Paste your examples and ask for a description of the voice. It will be about 70% right. Your corrections to the other 30% are the most valuable lines in the guide.
Use the guide every time
Paste the voice guide into every content prompt, or save it as a custom instruction. Consistency comes from repetition, not from the model remembering you.