How do I set up an AI style guide for my book?
- An AI style guide anchors the model to your book's conventions.
- It bundles voice samples, spelling and style choices, and rules.
- Feeding it into each session keeps AI help consistent.
- It doubles as a human style sheet for editing.
- Without it, AI defaults to its own generic house style.
Set up an AI style guide by collecting your book's conventions in one reference: a sample of your voice, your spelling and punctuation choices, character and place name spellings, and any rules (tense, POV, tone). Provide it to the AI at the start of each session so its suggestions follow your book's style rather than its own defaults. The same document doubles as a style sheet for human editing.
Chapter i·Why it matters
AI has a strong default house style, and without guidance it quietly imposes that style on your book — standardizing your punctuation, flattening your voice, "correcting" deliberate choices. A style guide you feed in each session keeps its help aligned with your conventions instead. It is the single most effective way to make AI assistance consistent across a long project and multiple sessions.
Chapter ii·What to include
- A short sample of your prose voice.
- Spelling, punctuation, and capitalization choices.
- Character and place name spellings.
- Rules: tense, POV, tone, and any deliberate "errors".
- A habit of pasting it into each AI session.
- Updates as your conventions evolve.
Chapter iii·Example
An author builds a one-page AI style guide: a voice sample, her preference for serial commas, the spelling of her invented place names, and a note that her narrator uses sentence fragments deliberately. She pastes it into every session. The AI stops "fixing" her fragments and standardizing her commas, and its help finally matches her book.
WriteLoom keeps your style guide beside the manuscript, so every AI session works from your conventions, not its defaults.
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