WRITING STYLE ANALYSIS USING AI - DISCOVER YOUR UNIQUE VOICE [Post 9-A]

How to Train Claude AI to Write in Your Writing Style

Jan 07, 2025

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Understanding your writing style is like discovering your fingerprint. It’s uniquely yours, but you need the right tools and techniques to see its distinct patterns.

Analyzing your writing style isn’t just about identifying word choices or sentence length. It’s also about understanding the DNA of your storytelling. Building tension, creating atmosphere, and connecting with readers are all important parts of your unique writing style. Claude AI can analyze your style and give you a report that you can use to train Claude to write in your style.

Today, I’ll show you how to use Claude AI to discover what makes your writing voice unique and how to make it even stronger. Whether you’re struggling to maintain a consistent voice throughout your story or trying to develop a style that serves your genre perfectly, you’ll walk away with a written analysis of your personal writing style.

Ready to discover what makes your writing uniquely yours? Let’s do it.

Understanding Writing Style Analysis: The Basics

Your writing style is your unique way of telling a story. Think of it like your speaking voice. You might use certain phrases, have a particular rhythm, or tell stories in a way that’s distinctly you. Your writing style includes:

Your word choices
Sentence patterns
Description depth
Dialogue handling
How you build emotional moments
and much more

Like a singer developing their range, you can work with your natural tendencies to strengthen them while staying authentic to who you are and what your writing sounds like.

A problem writers often face is staying consistent in their writing. Without realizing it, you might write one scene in deep, lyrical prose and another in choppy, action-focused sentences. Or maybe your natural style conflicts with your genre’s expectations. This is where Claude AI can help you spot patterns, test variations, and strengthen your unique voice while staying true to your story’s needs.

Let me show you how Claude AI can help you discover your authentic writing voice and style.

AI in Action: A Simple Style Analysis Example

Let’s see how Claude AI can analyze different writing styles.

MY PROMPT:

Claude, analyze this paragraph’s writing style and identify its key elements: Sarah traced her fingers over the dusty spines, breathing in the familiar scent of old paper and forgotten stories. Each book whispered its secrets to her, memories seeping through cracked leather bindings and dog-eared pages. The bookshop felt more like home than any place she’d lived in years.

CLAUDE’S RESPONSE:

“Style Elements:

- Sensory-rich descriptions (touch, smell)

- Personification of objects (books whispering)

- Emotional connection to setting

- Shorter sentences building to longer one

- Poetic word choices (seeping, whispered)

- Intimate, close perspective

- Focus on character’s experience

FOLLOW-UP PROMPT:

Please show this same scene written in three different styles while keeping the same basic information.

CLAUDE’S RESPONSE:

“Clean/Direct Style:

“Sarah walked through the bookshop, touching the books’ spines. The familiar smell of old paper surrounded her. She’d missed this place more than anywhere else she’d lived.”

Tense/Sharp Style:

“Dust sprang from the spines under Sarah’s fingers. Old paper. Forgotten stories. Cracked leather. Home. Finally.”

Analytical Style:

“The bookshop offered Sarah precisely what she’d been missing: tactile connection with aged volumes, the distinctive aroma of preserved paper, and a sense of belonging she’d failed to find elsewhere.”

These examples show how the same scene can carry different emotional impacts through various style choices.

Now, let’s explore how to apply this to your own writing.

How to Ask Claude to Analyze Your Fiction Writing

Five Easy Steps to Getting Your First Writing Style Analysis

[1] Locate or write a passage that feels most like “you.” Maybe it’s a scene that flowed naturally or a moment where you lost yourself in the writing. The more authentic the sample, the better Claude AI can identify your natural style elements. Don’t polish it too much. Sometimes, our quirks and habits are what make our writing voice unique.

[2] Now, attach your passage to Claude’s prompt. I use a Word doc, but other files might also work. You can also paste your passage into the prompt itself.

[3] Then try these prompts with Claude AI:

Analyze my paragraph for style elements. [Attach or paste your writing passage.]

Compare my writing style to [genre] expectations.

Identify repeated patterns in my writing sample.

[4] When Claude AI analyzes your writing style, save the insights into a document called “My Writing Style.” Then, whenever you need help with future writing, share this guide with Claude and ask him to write in your voice.

Think of it like giving Claude a map of your writing DNA or fingerprint. This file will contain your sentence patterns, word choices, quirks, and strengths.

[5] In the future when you need Claude to write a passage for you, you’ll attach this file called “My Writing Style” to the prompt. Then, instruct Claude to write [whatever you need] in your attached writing style.

This helps ensure that any writing suggestions you receive from AI will feel natural and consistent with your authentic voice rather than Claude’s generic writing style.

If there is anything mentioned in your writing analysis that you don’t completely understand, ask Claude to explain it to you.

Getting a Deeper Analysis of Your Writing Style

Go back into your previous writing projects, such as your articles of books. Find a longer passage or even a complete chapter that you particularly like. It needs to be something you’ve written and you’re proud of.

Follow steps two through five above.

Compare the results that Claude gives you this time with the analysis from the short passage. Choose the characteristics you like and delete those you don’t want to see in your writing.

After you’ve updated your writing style file, attach it to Claude’s prompt and ask him to give his opinion of this writing style. Try these prompts:

Claude, I’ve attached my updated writing style file and would like your opinion. Please point out the strongest and weakest areas in my writing.

Please make suggestions on how I can improve my writing style.

What genres would work well with my writing style?

As time passes and your writing improves, you can do this exercise again to update your “My Writing Style” file. But for now, give Claude AI something substantial to analyze.

As time allows in the future, try different kinds of scenes: dialogue, description, action, and emotional moments. Each type of writing reveals other aspects of your style. Claude AI can help you spot patterns like how you handle tense moments versus quiet ones or how your sentence structure changes when writing dialogue versus description.

The goal isn’t to fix your style – it’s to understand and strengthen what’s already uniquely yours.

Success Markers

You’ll know you’re making progress when:

Your voice feels natural
Your style stays consistent
Genre elements blend smoothly
Readers connect emotionally
Writing flows easily

Remember, good style isn’t about writing beautifully – it’s about writing authentically in a way that serves your story.

Conclusion

Today, you’ve learned how to use AI as a mirror, reflecting back the patterns and elements that make your writing distinct. You’ve also learned where your writing is strong and where it can be improved.

Whether you’re working to maintain consistency, adapting your style to different genres, or simply understanding your natural tendencies better, AI can help you see your writing with fresh eyes.

The goal isn’t to change your voice but to make it stronger. Use these techniques to understand your style, and then let that understanding guide you to write with more confidence and authenticity.

Coming Up Next

In Thursday’s paid post, we’ll dive deeper into advanced writing style elements. You’ll discover how to adapt your voice for different genres, create distinct character voices, and ensure your style enhances rather than distracts from your story. Plus, you’ll get specialized prompts for strengthening specific aspects of your writing style.

Next Tuesday, we’ll explore Show vs. Tell. You’ve heard of this before, but it’s interesting to learn more about it from Claude’s perspective. You’ll learn how to bring your scenes to life with vivid, engaging details, transform telling into showing, and make your stories come alive. If you struggle with show vs. tell, as many writers do, you’ll see that Claude is a master at it and can help you make it easy.

Ready to analyze your writing style?

Here’s what you can do right now:

1. If you haven’t done so, sign up for Claude AI 3.5 Sonnet Pro at Anthropic’s website. You want the option that says “Meet Claude 3.5 Sonnet.”

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Until next time, let’s stay creative,

-Elaine

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