Echowriting a small workflow change that can make your writing feel human again
I think many of us would have come across a lot of viral posts consisting of long paragraphs and sensitive details about someone's feelings (which we call ranting these days). And there would be at least one comment which will call the post ai and invalidate the feelings. When we describe the details to ai and ask it to write a post or a story for us, it sounds too robotic or extremely formal or maybe it uses a lot of unnecessary punctuation marks haha 😅. And honestly I too have used that, my biggest issue wasn't writing a great story but it was the correct use of grammar and sequencing the different parts of the story. I used AI for this and it would write something which never sounded like me. So I wondered if there's anything I can use that will at least sound like me. Then I came across Echowriting and I didn't realise how much of my writing didn't sound like me until i started using Echowriting.
Now you must be wondering like I used to do before I came across this, that what actually "Echowriting" is ?
Let me break it for you in simple words :
Echowriting is not just a prompting trick but rather a bridge between saving time and sounding like a real human by feeding your natural writing samples into an llm, you train the ai to mimic your unique tone and choice of vocabulary. It can help you sound like a human and allow you to be more productive at the same time.
Now if you find this interesting and want to integrate it too to your workflow, here's how you can do it in steps ( what I have been doing) :
Take any topic that you are comfortable with and can write long long paragraphs on that topic. Write a rough draft on that topic, just write anything you feel like writing.
Feed the rough draft to claude or chatgpt and ask it to analyse and adopt your tone and choice of vocabs
Ask it to write on any other topic and compare the outcome with the one you would have written
One thing I have learnt is that the better your rough draft the better will be the results. Don't use the ai to replace your ideas rather use it to express more naturally
I have personally found it useful for LinkedIn posts and cold emails ( to sound like me consistently )
My tip for new users is to consider it as a editor not a ghost writer and i would ask you to write a rough draft every time and compare with the results you get from the ai until it starts imitating you perfectly.