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I was sitting in my little corner of the house, watching ChatGPT spit out paragraph after paragraph that could have been written by anyone. The code it generated for me was brilliant—elegant, fast, downright magical—but the writing was severely… lacking.
It did NOT sound like me.
I tried tweaking prompts, changing temperature settings (lol), BEGGING it to loosen up. At some point I started typing in call caps. Nothing worked.
Many of my “drafts” would be trashed and I would start from scratch, wasting hours. This process went on for weeks.
And that morning, in my little corner, was the breaking point. That morning I said “enough” and walked away from using AI to write anything for me. In fact I stopped using it for pretty much anything at all. For 6 long months.
Then a friend casually dropped a bomb that would change my trajectory in life: “When I replaced Google with ChatGPT, things started to shift.” Curiosity dragged me back. This time, I stopped trying to get AI to sound like me and started with a simpler problem: just get me something useful. It fetched data, summarized papers, and helped me choose libraries for my coding. Speed returned (AI searching the internet was a game changer) but soul was still missing.
The turning point came while drafting a weekend mini-book on Python. I noticed that after a few chapters of relentless back-and-forth, the AI finally echoed my jokes, my pacing, even my snarky side comments.
Writing that book changed how I thought about getting AI to WRITE and SOUND like me.
It just needed more of me.
That epiphany cracked the code:
Feed it my stories.
Show it my structures.
Iterate until it sings like me (or my wife, who sounds like Snow White when she sings).
This process has turned into repeatable process that now powers blog posts, social threads, email sequences, and even revenue-generating books—without sacrificing my unique voice.
The Authentic AI Voice System
1. Input – Feed the AI Your Stories
• Dump past content: blogs, emails, transcripts, DMs, even (and this is sometimes the best) rambling voice notes.
• Or let the AI interview you: “Ask me 10 questions about how I teach...”
• Prioritize moments of emotion—wins, fails, late-night breakthroughs—because tone hides inside story.
Why this matters: The LLM can’t mimic what it’s never seen. Your quirks, metaphors, and pacing patterns become training data that instantly separate you from every copy-pasted prompt on the internet.
Pro tip: Alternate between raw transcripts and polished pieces. The contrast helps the model understand both your brainstorming voice and your publication voice.
2. Structure – Use Templates to Guide Output
Templates are your on-demand outline. They answer the question, “In what order should ideas appear so readers stay hooked?”
Example template I use for a newsletter:
### Punchy Story
[150-word anecdote that exposes the pain]
### Framework Breakdown
• Step 1
• Step 2
• Step 3
### Call to Action
[Invite, link, or micro-offer]
Hand the template to ChatGPT with a simple prompt: “Fill in this template from the interview we just did” Boom—instantly skimmable content that already sounds like you because the skeleton is yours!
No previous examples? Reverse-engineer your own best-performing piece. Headlines, subheads, bullet cadence, even the rhythm of sentence length—turn it all into placeholder brackets so the AI fills in the blanks.
3. Iterate – Refine for Authenticity
Even with A+ input and a bulletproof template, the first draft is rarely perfect. That’s good news: iteration is where the magic sneaks in.
How I iterate:
Highlight any line that makes me cringe.
Tell the AI why it’s off: “Too academic, make it conversational” or “Use a self-deprecating joke here.”
Lock in keepers: “Love this analogy—don’t change it.”
Rinse until 90% right, then human-edit the last 10%.
Advanced move: Paste your edited version back into the chat so the model levels up for the next chapter, post, or email thread. Momentum compounds.
From Burnout to $100K: The Transformation This System Sparked
Since nailing this workflow, I’ve:
• Written multiple short books—one clocked in at six HOURS from blank page to final draft.
• Shipped weekly blogs, daily LinkedIn posts, and entire email launches without wasting hours writing it myself
• Broke the six figure mark in my solopreneur business in just eight months, fueled primarily by AI-assisted content that felt 100% Sterling.
Internally, the shift is even bigger: I no longer see AI as a creativity threat. It’s a creativity amplifier. The fear is gone, replaced by playful experimentation and a conviction that my STORIES—your STORIES—are the strategic advantage when everyone sounds the same.
Ready to Teach AI Your Voice and Scale Your Impact?
If you’re an expert or coach who’s drowning in the need to “create more,” the Authentic AI Voice System is your life raft.
And to help you apply it, I’ve build a tool called WordLoom.
WordLoom is a writing tool designed to help you write 30 days of content in just a couple of hours per month.
WordLoom will:
Interview you,
Write for you,
Then repurpose your content for social media
It’s the Authentic AI Voice System packaged into a software tool.
80% of this email was written by it.
And after 28 market research calls, and our first 25 users, we are excited to begin inviting others to test it out.
Hop into WordLoom.
Have AI interview you!
And write your first post!
(For most people this only takes 15 minutes for a 1000 word article!)
I’m excited to see what you write!
Your friend and AI coach,
Sterling Long!