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Writing methodology

How I write

Five steps on every piece, and the AI's share stated on the work.

Writing for more than thirty years
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A post goes out, a peer calls it AI slop, and you are left explaining it.

I start where that worry starts: how a piece is made, and who decided. Every piece goes through five steps: an interview or my own research, a voice profile, a draft, a rubric score against my written writing principles, and my edit.

Seven levels, from Reviewed to Generated

I choose each piece's level by what it needs, never you. The first three cap how much the AI may change, and you judge the result.

Reviewed

I write the whole piece. The AI flags problems and changes nothing: 0%.

Edited

I write the whole piece. The AI edits for clarity and correctness, up to 10%.

Coached

I write, and accept or reject each line the AI suggests, up to 25%.

Together

I write alternate passes or sections, and the AI writes the others. No cap.

Drafted

I supply angle, outline and interview, the AI drafts, and I rewrite it. No cap.

Iterated

I direct each revision pass, and the AI drafts and revises from the voice profile. No cap.

Generated

The AI writes from the voice profile, and I approve it before release. No cap.

Before you ask

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I do, piece by piece, by what each one needs. You never have to pick one. You judge the result.

The levels are my own method, so there is no outside audit to point you to. I can tell you how any piece was made, and you can check it against the level on it.

Yes. Every piece is scored against the same written principles, whatever its level.

No. I can research your business and write from that. You can also reduce draft reviews or turn them off.

You do, along with the finished work. It stays with you if we stop.

Claude, from Anthropic, unless you ask for another. Each piece states how much of it the AI wrote.

Before-and-after samples are being compiled, and I will not promise a date. To test the method now, try one single piece and judge it against what you would have written. See the options.

Want to see the method on your own writing?

Tell me what is on your calendar, a weekly pitch or a feature presentation, and I will say how I would make it.

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