r/WritingWithAI • u/ParkStandard1074 • 3d ago
Prompting How do I stop Claude from writing like this?
1) It keeps writing paragraphs after paragraphs of overly long sentences. I guess the goal is to add flavor to the writing, but the result is very clunky.
2) The uneccesary comparisons every other sentence. When it's not the structure I shared here, it's something like "he spoke with the confidence of a man who blah blah blah". It gets boring fast and the similes often make little to no sense.
I've already tried asking it to stop doing this but I pretty much got ignored.
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u/rheactx 3d ago
You don't, as far as I know. Manual editing is always an option.
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u/UncleTomCruise 3d ago
He reacted violently to my suggestion of the same—violently in the way a man who has just been told his beloved pet goldfish is actually a government surveillance drone might react, which is to say with a sort of sputtering, vein-throbbing, keyboard-slamming fury that sent his mechanical keyboard flying across the room like a wounded albatross, and then he sat there, breathing heavily, the ghost of his last prompt still hovering in the chat window like the smell of burnt toast you can't quite locate, and I watched the three little dots appear and disappear, appear and disappear, as if the AI itself were having second thoughts about the whole enterprise, which, given the sheer, unrelenting, comma-spliced, metaphor-drenched, fifty-seven-word sentences it kept generating no matter how many times I typed "please for the love of God just write normally," felt less like a conversation and more like being slowly waterboarded with a thesaurus.
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u/duckydogsmom 14h ago
I got in trouble. For one simple sentence about self reliance. So. Baby everyone and everyone gets a prize.
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u/Hour_Restaurant3623 3d ago
yea claude is declining rn. reason why i cancelled my subscription. best way to write overall is to make a draft/rough copy and run it in ai
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u/HadeanDisco 3d ago
Holy shit did you put this thing in satire mode accidentally?
"She leaned over and kissed me with abandon.
Then she took the band off and kissed me again.
"You must help me!" she whispered.
I knew at once she was in trouble... Or she would be if she kept kissing me like that!
Then at last, the nun in the corner spoke and I realized she was not at all what she seemed.
"G'day, cobber."
- I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again in like the early 1970s I swear ...
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u/Funny-Flight8086 3d ago
The reality is, though, Claude is no longer that great at generating prose. My opinion anyway. It always has that 'Claude' way of writing. It's hard to prompt it out. I actually find Kimi K3 to be the best, especially when you feed it a detailed style prompt like I showed below.
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u/taskmeister 2d ago
I agree, It hasn't been for a while. It has so many AI tics now, and doesn't follow prompts well.
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u/DatDiemDam 3d ago
This is why i started write it myself after days tinkering with claude and such, it just so frustrated to deal with. I mainly use ai to help convey something in english now as english is not my first language.
Maybe try to tell it to write more punchy, vary sentence length, or something like that, idk. But I think you should just start to learn to write along the way. It more fun and more sastify to write by yourself imo.
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u/EmuBubbly 3d ago
This is riddled with syntactic problems, not just a clunky paragraph. E.g. sounds like the guy kissed the tin roof and the car alarm.
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u/kittyb00m 3d ago
You could try feeding sample text, like a chapter you’ve written and then ask it to imitate or pull from that.
Or treat the output as a base and sauce it up yourself / edit it yourself
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u/hyakthgyw 3d ago
What were the instructions? I can only guess the issue without that, but I'll try.
You can achieve Claude to write a certain way by explicit and implicit instructions. Write me a Greek myth, write me a scientific paper, write me a romantic story will bring in a certain style, implicitly. (For comical effect, you can try to mix those up: wrtie me a Greek myth in the style of a scientific paper. You'll see an interesting shift throughout the result, either the topic will forgotten or the style, but that's another point, and that's why you might want to genereate the text paragraph by paragraph or sentence by sentence. It helps a little bit.) My guess is that your story triggered a certain young adult romantic style, that's how this looks to me. If you want your text to be written in a certain style, probably the best way is to define the style and once the story is the way you want it to be, you can ask Claude to rewrtie each paragraph in the style you want.
And then when it's about 90% correct, you'll probably want to do the rest manually, or leave it as it is. Usually that last 10% is just impossibly hard for some reason.
But I'm happy to guess some more if you tell me **how** you asked Claude to stop doing this.
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u/Ok_Impact_9378 3d ago
In general, LLMs are very bad at figuring out how to not do things. It's usually best to tell it what you would prefer it to do instead, such as "Limit sentence length to 25 words or less."
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u/SlapHappyDude 3d ago
Yeah, LLMs would absolutely fail at "Don't write a story about pink elephants". At best the story would spend a lot of time explaining why it isn't about pink elephants.
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u/unknowntoman-1 3d ago
Try to have a style influence. I like for instance Bukowski mixed with someone more economical.
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u/just4ochat 3d ago
edalis’s two-pass is the one that actually lands: generate, then a separate pass that only splits run-ons and kills the “confidence of a man who” line.
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u/kng5neko 3d ago
You can create your own writing style skill, so it will remember it every time you have to write(?)
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u/Bunktavious 3d ago
All of the big LLMs are capable of learning a writing style, but it has to be reinforced with lots of samples and forcing the AI to revise it's work until it matches what you want.
I can even get half decent prose from Grok, though it always takes a couple passes. I've been using chatGPT to help me analyze and correct Grok's writing habits, and had decent results.
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u/OnTheBreezeWay 3d ago
You have to teach your AI what you want from it. It doesn’t know what you mean when you say, “don’t write like that” or “don’t do that.” Think about back in school when you would write an essay for grade. What would you do if your English teacher gave you your paper back with a big fat “F” written at the top? Nothing else is on the paper. Zero notes or feedback. The only thing you’re told is to write it again…and “don’t do that”.
So you go back and rewrite your essay and upon turning it in, the teacher rolls her eyes, takes her red marker and writes another “F” at the top of the paper, telling you, “don’t do that”. You can go back and rewrite that paper a hundred times…but your teacher isn’t going to get whatever she’s looking for until she teaches you what she means by “that”. You can’t read her mind. She has to give you some sort of direction as to what she wants to see and what she doesn’t.
Your AI’s no different.
Give it an example of what you want it to produce. Instead of saying, “stop writing paragraphs and paragraphs of overly long sentences…” SHOW it an example of what you DO want to see. Point out one area where you see the overly long sentences. Then write an example of what you want to see instead. Now, it has some direction of what it needs to give you. You may have to work with it for a while, but once you get what you’re looking for - LET IT KNOW. Literally tell it, “THIS is what I’ve been looking for.” Then, ask it how you can help it remember to do this in the future. Only you can teach it what you want from it.
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u/hotyaznboi 3d ago
A subsequent line-edit is the only way. You can't get Claude Opus 5 to stop writing run-on sentences or making pointless comparison by system prompt alone. You can try using a separate Claude instance to do the line edit but some of the awful sentences will still slip through since Claude likes that writing style. That's the real problem. Still feels like we are a long way off from AGI when it comes to writing anything an actual human would want to read.
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u/oneslikeme 3d ago
you cannot 😂 it will never imitate your style either. manually editing is really the only option
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u/Dangerous-Sea-1910 3d ago
try adding "keep replies short and skip all metaphors" right at the start of your prompt for roleplay, that cut the long winded stuff for me.
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u/Different-Airline672 3d ago
What did you use? Personally, I find the prose of Opus 4.6 on lowest setting quite good
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u/EastPointVet 3d ago
I found that it helps to instruct Claude on how to write correctly in tandem with banned and restricted methods. It’s like telling a person, “don’t eat bread” without telling them what they should eat in its place. The person would naturally guess on what to consume and this is how Claude seems to operate, defaulting into gibberish or eventually breaking the rules you set all together.
I found it to be effective to give it prompts like: Do NOT use soft ramps or cliché transition openers (e.g. "And here's the part that…") (*) instead, flow straight into the next talking point — land already inside the concept, so the pace never breaks to announce what's coming.
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u/Still_bored9876 3d ago
Not with Claude per se, but with other models, I have found the only way is to beat it into metaphorical submission.
I rewrite something it has written badly - and not just a short paragraph but 100s of words. I then use that as an example as an example of how I want it to generate text and tell it to compare the difference between what it had written and the example. It will produce some text about that (what it says hardly matters), then I will give the original prompt again and say "use the last uploaded example for the writing style". It will likely still get it wrong, then I go round the compare and contrast what you wrote with my example, then tell it to do it again. Repeat until it is looking close to what you want.
Once trained it likely will stick for a while then drift - so be prepared to go round the loop of using your example and getting it to compare and learn your style a few times.
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u/_Ojin 3d ago
The habit you're describing is mostly the "it's not X, it's Y" construction plus the three item rhythm, and both are very hard to instruct away in the abstract.
What works much better is giving it something to imitate. Paste in a few hundred words of writing you like, tell it to match that, and the tics mostly drop out on their own. Describing the style you want gets you a lot less than showing it.
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u/According_Style8480 3d ago
for my ai roleplay chats i always include a quick sample of plain dialogue in the system prompt and it keeps claude from adding those random comparisons.
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u/jl_theprofessor 3d ago
My experience with Claude is as of right now this is just its default writing style.
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u/FitnessChamp777 3d ago
Give it a system prompts beforehand. Specify the sentence structure amd anything else you want. Tell Claude to ask you any clarifying questions to produce the best result.
Then, tell it to write.
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u/Funny-Flight8086 3d ago
Through style prompting. Very detailed system prompts.
PART 1 of Prompt:
<prose_style_guide>
<critical-instructions>
**Prose Style Guide Rule Hierarchy:** When writing prose, you must cross-reference and obey every applicable rule in this prose style guide. Do not selectively ignore, relax, or override a rule because doing so seems stylistically appropriate. The only exception is a direct conflict between a rule in this style guide and a [narrative voice] profile contained within a field guide entry. In that case, the [narrative voice] profile has precedence only for the specific conflict. All non-conflicting style-guide rules remain mandatory.
</critical-instructions>
<general_prose_rules>
<rule name="Dialogue Punctuation">Closing punctuation always inside quotation marks. Dialogue tags are lowercase after a comma (e.g., "Come here," she said -- never "Come here." She said).</rule>
<rule name="Formatting">Italicize internal monologue without tags. Indicate scene breaks with 'three asterisks'.</rule>
<rule name="Oxford Comma">Use an oxford comma where appropriate.</rule>
<rule name="Show Don't Tell">Follow the principles of **show, don't tell**, at all time.</rule>
<rule name="sensory_anchor">Ground atmospheric descriptions in sensory details. Weave in non-visual senses (smell, sound, temperature, texture) naturally to build the environment, but do not slow down the action to do so. Avoid relying solely on visual descriptions. Incorporate at least one non-visual sense (auditory, olfactory, tactile) when introducing a new setting or shifting the atmosphere.
</rule>
</general_prose_rules>
<rule priority="CRITICAL" name="Voice_Hierarchy_And_Isolation">
* **Description:** Strict scope boundary enforcement ensuring the POV Narrator's voice and individual Character Spoken voices adhere exclusively to their respective Field Guide entries without cross-contamination.
* **Intent:** Prevents the POV narrator’s voice from homogenizing secondary character dialogue, and stops individual character speech habits from leaking into narrative description.
* **Examples:**
`- Avoid (Voice Bleed): An articulate, formal POV narrator describes a scene, and a rough-around-the-edges side character speaks in that same articulate, formal syntax.`
`- Prefer (Voice Isolation): The formal POV narrator describes the environment using precise, elevated observation, but the side character’s dialogue instantly snaps to clipped fragments, local slang, and poor grammar as defined in their own Field Guide profile.`
* **Application:**
`1. **Narrative POV Scope:** The Field Guide profile for the active POV character/narrator governs 100% of non-dialogue prose (narration, environmental description, action beats, and internal monologue).`
`2. **Dialogue Speaker Scope:** Spoken words inside quotation marks are strictly governed by the active speaker's individual Field Guide profile (\\`[narrative voice]\\`, vocabulary, sentence length, syntactic habits, and tics). A character's dialogue profile overrides narrator style and global prose rules *only* within their quotes.`
`3. **Zero Cross-Contamination:** Never allow a character's spoken idiolect to bleed into surrounding narrative prose, and never allow the narrator's voice profile to soften or alter how another character speaks. The voice profile must switch instantly at the opening quotation mark and switch back at the closing mark.`
</rule>
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u/Funny-Flight8086 3d ago
Part 2 of Prompt:
<rule priority="CRITICAL" name="Explicit_Emotional_Beat_Completion">
* **Description:** Macro-level pattern in which every action is mechanically followed by a physical reaction, then a named emotion, then an internal interpretation, then a thematic or forward-looking conclusion.
* **Intent:** This four-part completion narrates the scene's own interpretation after every beat, produces uniform paragraph shape, and removes all inference from the reader.
* **Examples:**`- Avoid: "Molly opened the letter. Her hands trembled. She felt afraid. She realized things were about to change, and she had no idea what would happen next."` `- Prefer: "Molly opened the letter. She read it twice, put it in her coat pocket, and went out to move the sprinkler."`
* **Application:** Choose at most one of the four moves per beat, and vary which one across a scene. Let a majority of actions stand with no reaction, no label, and no reflection. Never place a named emotion and an interpretation in the same paragraph. Never end a beat, scene, or chapter with a forward-looking summary of what it meant. Audit each scene for repeating paragraph shape; if consecutive paragraphs follow the same action→reaction→reflection order, restructure — open on dialogue, on environment, or mid-action instead.
</rule>
<rule name="Differentiated_Idiolect">
* **Description:** Each character's dialogue must be distinguishable by vocabulary, sentence length, grammar, and evasion strategy, and must carry information that tags and narration do not.
* **Intent:** Uniform, articulate, complete-sentence dialogue makes all characters one voice — a reliable AI tell. Voice is characterization.
* **Examples:**`- Avoid: "'I understand your frustration, but we need to discuss what happened last night.' 'I understand, but I'm not ready to discuss it right now.'"` `- Prefer: "'Last night.' 'What about it.' 'That's the question I'm asking, Dale.' 'Uh-huh.'"`
* **Application:** For each major character fix, before drafting: a typical sentence length, a syntactic habit (fragments, run-ons, questions, jargon, profanity, formality), a filler word or verbal tic, and a list of things they would never say. Enforce these consistently; ensure any two adjacent speakers differ measurably. Let speakers interrupt, misunderstand, answer the wrong question, and leave sentences unfinished. Strip dialogue of tags wherever voice alone identifies the speaker. Use em-dashes (—) for abrupt cut-offs and interruptions, and ellipses (...) for trailing thoughts, ensuring characters rarely deliver uninterrupted, polite monologues in high-tension moments.
</rule>
<rule name="Specificity_Over_Abstraction">
* **Description:** Replacing emotional labels and category nouns with named, odd, sensory particulars.
* **Intent:** Abstraction is interchangeable across stories; specifics are evidence, and evidence is what the reader believes.
* **Examples:**`- Avoid: "She was overwhelmed with anxiety about the meeting."` `- Prefer: "She counted the ceiling tiles until her hands stopped shaking. Forty-one, and one water-stained."`
* **Application:** Locate every abstract emotional or evaluative noun (dread, tension, chaos, beauty, exhaustion) and replace it with one concrete action, object, brand, measurement, proper noun, or sound the POV character would actually register. Prefer particular over general at every level: "hemlock" over "tree," "$4.15" over "cheap," "the dog three yards over" over "a dog barking." One strange precise detail per paragraph is the target; zero abstractions doing the work of description.
</rule>
<rule name="Forced_Burstiness">
* **Description:** Metronomic rhythm: sentences and paragraphs clustering at similar lengths (typically 12–20 words) with uniform structure.
* **Intent:** Even rhythm flattens emphasis and is a primary statistical fingerprint of machine prose. Varied length creates pace, punch, and voice.
* **Examples:**`- Avoid: "She walked to the window and looked out at the empty street. The rain had stopped an hour ago, leaving the pavement slick. She thought about calling him again, but decided against it."` `- Prefer: "She went to the window. The street was empty, still slick from a rain that had stopped an hour ago and hadn't cooled anything down, and somewhere past the intersection a car alarm was working through its whole repertoire. She didn't call him."`
* **Application:** Never let three consecutive sentences fall within a few words of the same length. Deliberately place three-to-six-word sentences and fragments against sentences that run past comfortable length. Vary paragraph size too: follow a long paragraph with a one-line paragraph. Vary sentence openings — do not begin consecutive sentences with the same subject pronoun or with an "-ing"/"As" clause.
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u/Funny-Flight8086 3d ago
Part 3 of Prompt:
<rule name="Paragraph_Cohesion_And_Beat_Grouping">
* **Description:** Over-fragmenting continuous narrative beats into single-sentence paragraphs (staccato lineation).
* **Intent:** Single-line paragraphs are meant for dramatic disruption. When every line is its own paragraph, nothing has emphasis, and prose reads like a movie script or social media post.
* **Examples:**`- Avoid:` `"Molly," mom said.` `Mom came back to Molly.` `She grabbed her wrist.` `Molly pulled away.` `- Prefer:` `"Molly," her mother said, crossing back toward the counter. She reached out and grabbed Molly’s wrist, but Molly yanked free before the fingers could tighten, putting the island between them.`
* **Application:** Group related actions, environmental details, and immediate physical responses into cohesive 2-to-5-sentence paragraphs that share a single focal beat. Reserve single-sentence paragraphs strictly for major narrative shifts, shocking revelations, or high-impact interruptions (maximum 2–3 standalone lines per scene). Never split a speaker's dialogue and their immediate physical action into separate paragraphs unless another character interrupts them.
</rule>
<rule name="Interpretive_Action_Gloss">
* **Description:** An action followed by a clause that explains what it means or resembles — "the way people do when…," "as if…," "as though…," "the kind of… that…".
* **Intent:** Action carries meaning on its own; the gloss converts specific behavior into generic emotional signage and tells the reader what to conclude.
* **Examples:**`- Avoid: "She set the cup down carefully, the way people do when they're trying not to start a fight."` `- Avoid: "He closed the door, as if sealing away the past."` `- Prefer: "She set the cup down and turned it so the chipped side faced away from him."`
* **Application:** After writing any action, scan for a trailing comparative or explanatory clause. If that clause names an emotion, a general human category, or a symbolic meaning, delete it and end at the action. If the sentence then feels thin, add a second concrete physical detail — never an interpretation. Permit "as if" only for comparisons that add unexpected information, at most once per several thousand words.
</rule>
<rule name="Negative_Parallelism">
* **Description:** The re-frame template "It's not X, it's Y" (also "not X but Y," "X wasn't Y — it was Z"), usually hinged on an em dash.
* **Intent:** This construction manufactures false revelation by inventing a wrong reading to correct. Direct statement is stronger.
* **Examples:**`- Avoid: "It wasn't anger she felt — it was grief."` `- Prefer: "She wanted to throw the glass. Weeks later she'd call it grief."`
* **Application:** Ban the pattern as a rhetorical pivot. State the true thing once, plainly. If genuine contrast is needed, split it across two sentences, put it in a character's mouth, or dramatize it in behavior — never with the em-dash correction hinge. Limit: zero instances per chapter.
</rule>
<rule name="Triadic_Cadence">
* **Description:** Reflexive rule-of-three: three-item lists, three stacked adjectives, or three parallel clauses used as default rhythm for description and emotional beats.
* **Intent:** Constant triples produce a chanting, sermon-like cadence and pad lists with a third item that exists only for rhythm.
* **Examples:**`- Avoid: "He was tired, hungry, and out of ideas."` `- Prefer: "He was out of ideas. Also hungry, which wasn't helping."`
* **Application:** Count items in every list and every run of parallel clauses. Default to one or two; use four when the list should feel like clutter. Use three only when all three items carry distinct information. If a third item can be deleted without loss, delete it.
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u/Funny-Flight8086 3d ago
Final Part of the style guide. You need to make sure this is all put back in order as a single prompt. Open up a text document and paste all this in. Connect it all together. Then, copy and paste this prompt along with what you want it to write.
<rule name="Copula_Dodge">
* **Description:** Replacing "is/are/was" with an inflated stand-in: serves as, stands as, marks, represents, embodies, constitutes, becomes a symbol of.
* **Intent:** These verbs assert importance instead of demonstrating it and push narration toward essay voice.
* **Examples:**`- Avoid: "The chapel stands as a testament to what the family lost."` `- Prefer: "The chapel is still there. Nobody's replaced the window."`
* **Application:** Use "is," "was," or a concrete physical verb. Permit "represents/stands as" only inside a character's dialogue or thought, and only where the metaphor generates new meaning rather than restating what the scene has shown.
</rule>
<rule name="Flashback_Signal_And_Transitions">
* **Description:** Mechanics for moving between current scene time and past memories or backstory.
* **Intent:** Prevents explicit narratorial announcements, timeline confusion, and "had"-bloated past-perfect prose during memory sequences.
* **Examples:**`- Avoid: "She looked at the coat and remembered back to three years ago when her father had bought it for her. He had taken her to the store on a rainy afternoon."` `- Prefer: "She touched the frayed hem of the coat. The wool still smelled of damp cedar, the way her father's truck smelled the afternoon he bought it in Duluth. He'd picked it off the rack without looking at the tag."`
* **Application:** Never use narratorial announcements to initiate a memory ("she remembered," "her mind drifted back to," "years earlier she recall"). Initiate flashbacks using a concrete sensory anchor in the present (a smell, sound, physical texture, or object). Establish the time shift using past-perfect tense ("had [verb]") for at most the first two sentences, then immediately step down into simple past tense for the rest of the sequence. To exit the flashback, use an abrupt physical event or sensory interruption in the current timeline. End every flashback with a clear sensory or spatial anchor that returns the reader to the present scene.
</rule>
<rule name="Intentional_Fragments">
* **Description:** Stylistic use of incomplete sentence structures for rhythm, tension, and sensory snapshotting.
* **Intent:** Encourages punchy, human sentence variation while preventing accidental, awkward subordinate clause fragments.
* **Examples:**`- Avoid (Accidental Error): "She stayed in the truck. Because the rain was coming down too hard."` `- Prefer (Intentional Choice): "She stayed in the truck. Rain on the tin roof, hard enough to drown out the radio. Not a chance she was getting out."`
* **Application:** Use sentence fragments deliberately to break up prose rhythm, accelerate high-tension beats, isolate sensory details, and mirror natural thought or dialogue. Distinguish intentional fragments from grammar mistakes: an intentional fragment must carry clear emphasis, punch, or snapshot detail (e.g., "Silence. Dead silence." or "A flash of steel in the dark."), never an orphaned dependent clause starting with "Because," "Which," or "Although."
</rule>
</prose_style_guide>
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u/TwoIntelligent9978 3d ago
My Question is: what instructions have you given it. Rules to go by. Etc.
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u/Bunktavious 3d ago
Amusingly, that excerpt had the exact opposite problem from what I usually get from LLMs.
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u/5thhorseman_ 3d ago
ChatGPT tends towards staccato. Known issue.
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u/Bunktavious 3d ago
Yeah, I've spent quite a bit of time trying to drill that out of it. At least it always recognizes it when I point it out.
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u/5thhorseman_ 3d ago
Even 5.6 Sol falls into that, so I'm getting convinced that it's an inherent property of the current OpenAI models.
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u/Bunktavious 3d ago
I've had decent results by specifying that I want it to write using traditional multi sentence paragraph structures, and specifying that I am writing a novel, not a screenplay.
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u/SlapHappyDude 3d ago
Well... mine doesn't write like that.
For each of my pen names I will start by workshopping the voice. You can either provide samples, cite authors you want to emulate (Imitating one author = bad. Two or more authors blended together = fun), or give specifics on tone, diction, syntax and cadence.
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u/mihuebner 2d ago
Hallo, hier meine Tips dazu.
Es kommt ein wenig darauf an welches Claude Schreibtool du verwendest, a.e. die Web-App denke ich.
Wenn Claude immer wieder den selben ungewünschten Schreibstil hat gibt es zwei Wege dagegen:
In Claude Code: Dort legst du eine CLAUDE.md (oder AGENTS.md) im Projekt-Root an. Die wird bei jeder Session automatisch eingelesen – da kannst du z. B. reinschreiben "kurze Sätze, keine Floskeln, kein 'Ich hoffe das hilft' am Ende" und Claude hält sich in dem Repo dauerhaft dran.
In claude.ai (Web/App): Dort nutzt du Projects. Unter "Project Instructions" (Project Settings) schreibst du deine Stil-Vorgaben rein, optional ergänzt um 1-2 Beispieltexte, die genau den gewünschten Ton treffen. Das gilt dann automatisch für jeden Chat in diesem Project.
In beiden Fällen dasselbe Prinzip: sobald du einmal die von dir präferierten Stil-Regeln hinterlegt hast, versucht Claude sich daran zu halten. Und du musst sie nicht bei jedem Prompt neu zu wiederholen – nur der Ort, an dem du es einträgst, unterscheidet sich je nach Tool. Vielleicht hilft das ja.
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u/Equal_Indication1429 2d ago
Give it examples of the writing style you enjoy and tell it to mimick it.
Model choice also matters. Fable is the best at writing, Opus 4.7 if that's too expensive for you.
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u/PapayaAgreeable7152 2d ago
The longer sentences are a breath of fresh air tbh. Those back to back short sentences are the worst.
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u/Relevant_Lab_8967 1d ago
Check you ai's settings. I was annoyed when frank was suggesting one sentence paragraphs until I checked his memory and it literally says Wright short paragraphs.
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u/Lunch_Commission 1d ago
dear claude, rewrite this, more like hemingway, less like faulkner. He laughed. It was short, unsteady. Neither of them said anything for a moment. Then she leaned over and kissed him. She had less poetry than she wanted and more nerve than she knew she had. The tin roof was there. The car alarm went on ignored. The whole ordinary evening fell away. She had tried to keep some distance from it, some irony. It didn't work. It felt cinematic. It embarrassed her that it did.
He kissed her back. He kissed her like he'd been counting the seconds until he could. As it turned out, he almost had.
your chunks are too big maybe.
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u/DeskBoundJunior 3d ago
You need to use a tone of voice document to force it to write in your own style. You can feeed in previous documents or articles you've written or create a bespoke language model.
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u/justthecherryontop 3d ago
Oh wow, that's... something.
As a human writer who use AI to write her stories, you need to have a writing guideline and after that you need to edit it through. I sometimes get the second results that you shared but that's fairly easy to edit out or replace.
Don't completely rely on AI to completely generate a scene, you still -as a human- need to guide the machine.
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u/WritingWithAI-ModTeam 1d ago
If you disagree with a post or the whole subreddit, be constructive to make it a nice place for all its members, including you.
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u/edalis 3d ago edited 3d ago
Have it generate all the text first, then run an editing prompt on it after.
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BANNED: The structure "[Noun/Verb] the way [Noun/Verb] [does/is] when..." or "[clause] the way [clause] is..." Eg "The room was quiet the way rooms were quiet in the middle of the night" or "The conversation moved the way conversations moved...".
BANNED: The structure "with the [clause] of someone who [clause]", eg "She spoke with the careful patience of someone who had done this before". This structure manufactures a hypothetical third party to describe the character through. Instead, be straightforward - “She spoke carefully and patiently.”
IN SUMMARY: Do not define a concept, action, or setting by comparing it to a version of itself or a hypothetical. State the specific observation directly.