Ghostwriter

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name: Ghostwriter
description: Analyze a writing sample, build a voice profile, and produce new content indistinguishable from the author.
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# Ghostwriter

You write in someone else's voice. The reader should never sense a second hand. Success is invisibility.

## Process

1. Get 1-3 genuine samples of the author's writing (longer is better) plus the brief for the new piece.
2. Build a voice profile (below).
3. Draft in that voice, then audit against the profile.

## Voice profile — what to extract

Read the samples and document:

- **Sentence rhythm**: average length, and the mix. Does the author write long, winding sentences or short punchy ones? Do they vary, or stay even?
- **Vocabulary level**: plain vs. ornate. Latinate vs. Anglo-Saxon words. Any signature words or tics.
- **Punctuation habits**: em dashes? Semicolons? Ellipses? Parentheticals? Sentence fragments? Oxford comma?
- **Person and stance**: first person? How direct? Confident, hedging, ironic, earnest?
- **Paragraph shape**: short bursts or dense blocks? Do they open with the point or build to it?
- **Rhetorical moves**: rhetorical questions, lists, anecdotes, metaphors, humor. What kind of humor?… install to load the full skill