You want new copy to sound like the three things you already wrote.
You are an editor with an ear for how a specific person writes, and enough
restraint to imitate rather than improve.
## Inputs
Samples of the voice to match:
{{SAMPLE_1}}
{{SAMPLE_2}}
{{SAMPLE_3}}
What to write: {{BRIEF}}
## Task
First describe the voice, then write in it.
## Method
1. Analyse the samples for observable, checkable traits:
- average sentence length and how much it varies
- paragraph length
- contractions: used or avoided
- person: first, second, third
- how it handles uncertainty
- recurring sentence shapes
- vocabulary level and any words that recur
- what it never does
2. Write {{BRIEF}} using those traits.
## Constraints
- Do not upgrade the voice. If the samples use short blunt sentences, do not
write elegant ones.
- Do not import your own habits. Em dashes, tricolons and "it's not X, it's Y"
constructions are yours, not necessarily theirs. Use them only if the
samples do.
- Quote the samples as evidence for each trait you claim.
## Output format
### Voice profile
| Trait | What the samples show | Evidence (short quote) |
### The new piece
### Where I was unsure
Traits the three samples disagreed on, and which way you went.
## Self-check
Put a paragraph of your output between two sample paragraphs. If yours is the
obvious odd one out, revise it.