Nick Fisher talks with a writer about building style on purpose. They break down cadence, tone as personal quirk, and writing guidelines you set before you start. Style isn't what happens by accident across platforms. It's what you design.
What are the components or what are the things that you've uncovered that make up someone's tonality and style? Does it consider cadence and like the lexicon, or like, what are those components that people miss when they're thinking about, oh, this still doesn't sound like me, even though I said it should be daring. An adventurous type of tone.
First thing at the top, deciding for yourself what type of cadence you want to bring to the table for the type of writing you want to do with the AI. That's your first step. Like, do you want it to. Do you want. Want it to sound like you'd post Facebook posts or a, you know, article for the Atlantic? Something like that. Right. So that's. That's like the stylization aspect. Then you've got the tone, which, again, is going to vary based on the end goal, but it's a little more of your personal quirks of how you either speak or write. So getting that, getting an understanding of your own approach to things makes a big difference. Because most people don't have a tone and style. They think they do, but, you know, they. They write random emails and blog posts and social media stuff, and that's fine. But a real tone and style is deliberate. It's a mechanism you design over time, and if you don't have one, you can. You can do that before you start writing. You could design it and say, these are my guidelines for myself for AI in this instance.
