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How to Edit AI Drafts Without Flattening Your Voice

How to Edit AI Drafts Without Flattening Your Voice

Edit for recognition, not perfection

Open the AI draft beside a sample you wrote without assistance. Notice your preferred verbs, how quickly you get to the point, and the examples you use to make an argument. Those patterns are a useful editorial baseline.

Revise in passes. First fix accuracy, then structure, then tone. Avoid replacing every sentence just to make it different; preserve the parts that already communicate clearly and focus your energy on the passages that sound interchangeable.