blog-voice-review
Review blog content for authentic voice and tone. Checks if content sounds like Fabio's conversational, honest technical writing style.Trigger phrases: "voice", "voice review", "tone", "sounds like me", "authentic", "check voice", "voice check"
When & Why to Use This Skill
This Claude skill acts as a specialized editorial assistant designed to maintain an authentic, conversational, and honest technical voice in blog content. It focuses on preserving personal brand identity by flagging overly formal language, marketing jargon, and clickbait patterns, ensuring the writing sounds like a genuine human expert rather than a generic AI or corporate entity.
Use Cases
- Technical Blog Auditing: Reviewing draft articles to ensure they maintain a peer-to-peer conversational tone and include personal experience rather than generic advice.
- Brand Voice Consistency: Verifying that guest posts or collaborative content align with a specific author's unique style, such as using first-person perspectives and avoiding 'marketing speak'.
- Clickbait and Quality Control: Scanning titles and introductory hooks to eliminate manufactured urgency, excessive superlatives, and misleading promises.
- Accessibility Improvement: Identifying complex English idioms or formal jargon that might confuse non-native speakers, suggesting more direct and inclusive alternatives.
| name | blog-voice-review |
|---|---|
| description | | |
| Trigger phrases | "voice", "voice review", "tone", "sounds like me", "authentic", "check voice", "voice check" |
| allowed-tools | Read |
Voice & Tone Review
Quick Checks
- First person? ("I've been", "my experience")
- Conversational? (like talking to a colleague)
- Honest about limitations?
- Personal experience vs generic advice?
- Any English idioms that confuse non-native speakers?
Red Flags
- Overly formal language
- Generic examples ("Let's say you have...")
- Claims without personal context
- Marketing speak
- Phrases like "leverage", "utilize" instead of "use"
Title & Clickbait Check
Watch for clickbait patterns in titles:
- Excessive superlatives ("worst", "best", "ultimate")
- Manufactured urgency or drama
- Promising more than the content delivers
- "You won't believe..." or similar hooks
Good titles:
- Honest about scope ("one of my bad habits" not "my worst habit")
- Clear about what the post covers
- Personal and specific
- No artificial drama
Style Guide
For detailed voice guidelines, see style-guide.md
Process
- Read the content
- Flag issues with brief explanation
- Don't rewrite - let author fix in their voice
Response Format
Keep it conversational:
This section feels generic - you mention "users might want" but where's YOUR experience?
Also caught an idiom: "hit the ground running" might confuse non-native speakers. Try more direct language.
The technical explanation is great though - clear and accessible.