Writing With AI
Routine messages go wrong by being longer and warmer than the situation
Everyday correspondence is the highest-volume writing most people do, and the default output misjudges it…
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Writing With AI
Drafting, editing and the point at which the tool stops helping.
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Writing With AI
Bring the position with you, because a draft without one finds the middle
Argumentative writing produced without a stated conclusion arrives balanced, hedged and committed to…
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Writing With AI
Working up your own notes is the case where drafting help is least risky
When the substance already exists in rough form, the task becomes ordering and expressing rather than…
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Writing With AI
Harvest the paragraphs worth keeping before you throw the draft away
Between patching a failing draft and starting again there is a step most people skip, which is going…
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Writing With AI
The tenth piece on your subject repeats the second unless you plan against it
Working on one subject over a long stretch produces a body of writing that converges, and the convergence…
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Writing With AI
Matching one person’s voice from samples reproduces their habits, not their judgement
Supplying examples of how somebody writes gets you their surface reliably and their thinking not at all…
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Writing With AI
A quotation that came back through the draft is no longer a quotation
Verbatim material does not survive a drafting pass intact, and the alterations are small, plausible and…
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Writing With AI
Two people drafting the same document converge on a voice neither of them has
Co-authoring with drafting assistance on both sides produces a text that reads as consistent and belongs to…
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