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Samples
Three to five things you wrote, start to finish. The model copies what it sees more faithfully than anything it is told.
Pick
- Your own words
- Like what you write now: three newsletters teach a newsletter
- Your best, not your latest
- 800 to 1,600 words each, up to five
- Plain text or Markdown, named by year and title
Leave out
- Anything an AI drafted or an editor rewrote
- Menus, footers and "share this" lines
The Milne example
1919-the-pleasure-of-writing.md6 KB · an essay about a new nib1926-a-visit-that-ran-long.md8 KB · a chapter: a visit, a hole, a long wait1928-a-game-on-the-bridge.md15 KB · a chapter: sticks, a river, a bridge
Each opens with where it came from, then the text as written:
<!-- A. A. Milne, "Not That It Matters" (1919), "The Pleasure of Writing".
Public domain in the United States. -->
[...] To-day I am without a care. Nothing less has happened than that
I have a new nib in my pen.
The essay shows how he talks to a grown-up; the chapters, how he tells a story. A newsletter needs both.
Add and test them
Voice → Manage → New voice pack → Upload files. Write a paragraph, add a prompt under it, and read both aloud. Hear the seam? Swap in a closer sample. Next: the writer file