MyStyleGuide — Writing Voice Analyzer
What it is
A web app that analyzes writing samples I admire, tracks my editor's corrections, & generates a precise style guide I can use to tweak my drafts where necessary.
The problem it solves
Truth be told, it's hard to fully articulate what makes my writing mine. I know how to write, but I can't explain it — so I built a tool that helps me articulate & make sense of my style.
& I certainly often mirror other writers I respect in my writing so it feels more rich.
Because in the end, in some ways, we are covetous & attracted to well-articulated arguments. & with Claude, we can mirror the sentence structures that resonate with us when we write important articles & cannot properly articulate an idea.
How it works
You save writing samples you admire, paste them directly into the app (or directly import from a URL).
The app extracts the article, author name, & publication metadata automatically. You can add notes on what specifically you liked.
Here's what my main page looks like: you can see it's a collection of sentences from writers & writings I admire:
& when I have enough, I can click "Analyze." Claude examines each piece at the craft level: how sentences are structured, which rhetorical moves are used, what landed well for introductions, what the rhythm feels like. The "metric" it analyzes depends on what I have fed it as a baseline for quality writing.
It then gives me a surgical, specific analysis of what those sentences (read writers) did right.
I also have a section where I can log edits & feedback from my editors. Those feed into a "Don't Do This" layer. The final style guide (which I can create after the analysis) combines both: techniques to steal, habits to break, your sentence fingerprint, your tone, your word patterns, & a 10-rule quick reference you can consult while writing.
The guide is editable, downloadable, & you can chat with it or load it into a Claude or Chat GPT project so you can edit your draft more thoroughly. Ask it questions, ask it to explain a rule, or ask it to help you decide whether a sentence you wrote reads the way you'd like it to read. Yes, this is what you use LLMs for, but this is a bit more specific. That's the point.
I built it with: Claude Code, 3.5 Sonnet (Anthropic), Supabase, Next.js, Mozilla Readability. The site is here: mystyleguide.vercel.app/clips.
The live site is mine, filled with my samples & writing preferences. To build your own version, you can clone my GitHub repo. I can also walk you through it.