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Finding My Writing Voice Through AI

I discovered my writing voice in the most unexpected place - buried in 270,000 words of my own recorded conversations. This journey transformed how I approach writing completely

When I write, I currently face several overlapping challenges. This includes clarity, English as foreign language, and writing in an engaging way. I want to improve continuously, but I phase the challenge of a missing reference.

How do I know if a writing is good, and what makes it good? Once I know that, how can I transfer that knowledge to my own expression, to my own writing.

I read through many sources. I learned through many courses. But still, I struggle. And likely you can also experience that while reading my newsletters.

I want to express so much, but lack the most important tool to transport it properly. Involving AI for writing is for sure a help, but it does not help me with finding my own voice and even becomes dangerous because working with AI can dilute authenticity.

The Knowledge Foundation

So, I went on a journey to further explore that field of writing. I consolidated all my insights, deep learning sources like courses and books that I collected over the years.

I took all that knowledge to AI and asked for creating one big, centralized knowledge base about writing techniques and challenges. This knowledge base now includes

• Core Principles of Writing
• Writing frameworks and techniques (AIDA, PAS, BAB, PASTOR,…)
• Writing structure insights
• Revision and Editing guidelines
• And so much more

This knowledge base is now about 10,000 words of deep insights about writing.

A rich writing knowledge base

This covers the fundamental writing topics, but it does not solely help me with my writing. Sure, with this knowledge base and AI tools combined, I can write formally correct. However, it lacks personal style. It needs my unique touch. But how can I find my voice? Can I just think about it and expect it to emerge? Or must I practice deliberately? ​

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The Breakthrough insight

A friend (hey you Robyn) provided me with an important hunch: Writing in a way I would talk to someone. Natural, not artificial. When I’m in a dialog, when I explain a topic to a friend, then I’m in my natural flow and rhythm. Then I’m using my voice.

I wondered, how can I tap into that voice. How can I externalize that voice so that I can bring that to my writing too.

Like so often, the idea came overnight. The diffused thinking mode, just giving my brain some time to think through that and then suggest a practical method.

I just ran Cohort#01 of Learning Ecosystem Mastery. During the weekly 2 hour live session I explained a lot. During the weekly 1 hour exploration session, I was a lot in dialog. And - eureka - all these session are recorded.

The Voice extraction Process

So, I took all full session transcripts, extracted the moments when I was explaining, when I was in dialog mode and gave that to AI. With a detailed instruction to analyze my speech patterns and style.

If AI has one core strength, then it is to scan through a rich set of information. From these 9 weeks, we speak about 270000 words. This is an equivalent of 3-4 non fiction books.

How do I know? I just asked Gemini-AI ​
if I have 270000 words, how many standard books would this be?
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​ ​ This AI distillation of my voice patterns led to a detailed overview about my voice. It highlighted unique traits like language patters, my way of telling stories. AI even extracted core values that shine through my expression.

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Building my Writing Mentor

Now I had this detailed knowledge base about writing itself, and I had this detailed analysis of my voice. After having build quite some AI assistants already, the next step was obvious to me. I had to combine both insights and create my personalized writing AI assistants.

I call it “Lexicon” - My writing mentor. Actually, let’s be honest. I asked the assistant to come up with its own name. It chose Lexicon.

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​ ​ In the video, Lexicon describes itself. And I mean that literally. I asked Lexicon for what it likely looks like. Then to describe what it does. The full video script and its appearance is AI expressing itself. So for me Lexicon became a trusted creative partner. It coaches, it teaches, it guides my writing. It reminds me of my voice patterns, it combines that with deeper knowledge about writing but it provides all that knowledge in an amplifying manner. ​

My hope, my deep wish is to become better at expressing myself. Through deliberate practice, but also through consistent feedback loops.

The Bigger Pattern

Zooming out, there is a bigger pattern behind this. This is one more example of leveraging AI for growth. It shows a different approach compared to the age of information scarcity and to an age without such strong assistant capabilities.

Now that AI is there, it is about leveraging its power and integrating it thoughtfully to amplify our capabilities.

The pattern, that shows for me over and over again looks like this.

First: Get clear on the knowledge you need to achieve an outcome. In my case, understanding writing deeply.

Second: Find a way to provide this knowledge to AI. Extract and externalize this knowledge. I did that through scanning all the material I collected, then asking AI to synthesize and extract the key insights into a structured knowledge base.

Third: Add your personality, your own experiences. For writing, I found a way to extract my style from recorded conversations.

Fourth: Build your personal AI assistant. This is now a matter of minutes for me, especially with the help of Dr. Throughput.

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​ ​ ​ He assists me in creating assistants. Dr. Throughput interviews you about your goal, your insights and then creates an assistant setup instruction you can take to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini to create your assistant.

As soon as I have such an assistant, I can leverage my insights on a whole new level. For writing, I described the impact above. I do that for coming up with ideas too. Also for optimizing my workflows. And for so much more.

Your turn

Now I’d like to ask for your feedback. What are your thoughts about integrating AI so deeply? And - did you notice a change in my writing?

This approach isn’t just about writing - it’s about using AI as a mirror to discover and amplify what’s already uniquely yours. The authenticity doesn’t get diluted; it gets clarified.

Ready to Build Your Own AI Workforce?

Happy AI deep dive.

Learn smart,

Basti

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P.S. If you would like to get deeper insights into my writing assistant let me know. I did not yet bundle that, but I’m happy to do so.

You can already explore these AI assistants I’ve created using this pattern:

→ Idea Explorer AI Assistant: Enhance your creativity (currently available for 0€) https://shop.quintsmart.com/idea-explorer-ai-assistant/​

→ Book.To.Action Playbook: Transform finished non-fiction books into immediate action (30€) https://product.quintsmart.com/l/book-to-action​

Both assistants show the pattern applied. You get full access to the AI assistant instructions and their knowledge bases. Maybe that inspires you to take your first steps with creating your AI assistants too.

Learning Ecosystem Mastery - Cohort #02 starts July 23rd, where we deep dive into creating your world of wisdom. Details at https://program.quintsmart.com/transform-your-learning-in-9-weeks​

Limited spots available and early bird pricing (15% off) is still active.

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