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Writing7 min read · 26 June 2026

Your tone already exists, you just have to find it

Your last twenty posts contain patterns you have never put into words. How to identify them.

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Analysis

People will tell you to "find your voice", as though it were filed away somewhere waiting to be found. It is already in your last twenty posts. The work is not to invent it: it is to notice what you already do without knowing, and to stop contradicting it.

A voice is not an intention, it is a sum of regularities. Sentence length, punctuation, the choice between the concrete and the abstract, how often "I" appears, a taste for examples or for principles. You already have every answer, written down.

Extracting it yourself, in an hour

Take your last twenty posts, paste them into one document, and look for five things. It is tedious and it works.

01Your average sentence lengthCount the words in ten random sentences. Under fifteen, you write short and dry; over twenty-five, you are an essayist posting on LinkedIn. Neither is a fault.
02Your openingsLine up your twenty first lines one under the other. The pattern jumps out: you almost always open the same way, and you had never noticed.
03Concrete or abstractHighlight every proper noun, number, place and date. A post dense with concrete detail is recognisable instantly; a post with none could have been written by anyone.
04Where the "I" sitsCount them. Plenty of "I" is neither good nor bad, but their distribution tells you something: are they in the stories, in the advice, or in the conclusions?
05What you never doThe most revealing of all. No emoji? Never a question? No numbered lists? Those absences are more characteristic than your habits, and they belong to you.

"Eighteen days to answer a candidate is nine too many."

SHORT SENTENCE · NUMBER-BACKED · NO "I"

Where people contradict themselves

The commonest mistake is not writing without a voice. It is having one and borrowing another on the day you decide to "write a proper post".

Someone who normally writes in short factual sentences suddenly publishes a three-hundred-word personal story with a life lesson at the end. It gets a tenth of the usual reactions, and the author concludes their audience does not like stories. In fact, the audience did not recognise them.

WHAT THE EXTENSION DOES

On the Author plan you provide a sample of your own posts. Drafts are then written from your regularities rather than from a generic tone, and the sample stays attached to your account, feeding nothing else.

What to do with all this

Nothing spectacular, and that is the point. Once your five regularities are written on a page, you have a checklist: before publishing, check that the post sounds like you.

What you will mostly notice is how often you were about to publish something you would not have written: a decent post, but one that could have come from anyone. That is what a voice prevents, and it is already a great deal.

Got a text in front of you right now?

Paste what you asked the model for and what it answered. The checker underlines every figure, name and quotation that was not in your request. No account, no card, in thirty milliseconds.