Guides

Your voice, in four files.

slopmill reads a few short files before every pass. Get them right and the drafts sound like you.

SamplesThings you wrote. The part that matters most.Start here The writer fileWho is writing, for whom, the key rules. The voice fileYour habits, each with a real line. The design fileColours and HTML, apart from the voice.

How they fit together

The first three make a voice pack (Voice → Manage). The design is separate, so one voice works in any design.

The voice pack panel for the example voice: writer.md as the brief, VOICE.md as the rules, and three sample files, each with a size, a role and an on/off box.

The example writes like A. A. Milne, from an essay and two chapters that are public domain in the United States. Please don't imitate living writers.

The order to do it in

  1. Pick your samples.
  2. Write the writer file.
  3. Try one paragraph and one prompt. Read them aloud together.
  4. If the seams show, write a voice file.