The Five Dimensions
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The Five Dimensions
A useful voice profile captures five things:
Sentence structure — do you use long flowing sentences or short punches? Both, in a particular sequence? Knowing your sentence structure patterns tells Claude how to pace your prose, not just what words to use.
Metaphor source — where do your analogies come from? Sports? Movies? Physical space? Food? Architecture? Writers draw from the same well repeatedly. Identifying your well lets Claude draw from it instead of reaching for generic comparisons.
Qualifiers — how do you hedge? “In my experience” vs “I think” vs “it seems to me” vs “so far” — these aren’t interchangeable. Your hedging patterns are part of your credibility signal. Wrong qualifiers break voice even when the rest is right.
Rhythmic patterns — em-dashes? Parenthetical asides? One-word paragraphs for emphasis? Lists vs prose? These are fingerprints. The way you use structural devices is as distinctive as word choice.
What you avoid — business jargon? Exclamation marks? Emojis? Certain phrases? The avoidance list is often more useful than the preference list, because defaults lean toward the things you’d cut.