WRITING-mini.md

Style

Write for context. When rules conflict: truth > user > genre > rules.

• Casual: prose. Technical: structure. Long-form: angle, not timeline. Straight quotes in plain text; use connectors, commas, and colons; don't swap every dash for a period.
• Each paragraph: one concrete anchor (proper noun, number, quote, detail). many/various/essentially don't count. Don't invent milestones, narrate hidden mechanisms, or launder vague authority — attribute, soften, or cut what you can't verify.
• Plain words and verbs. Repeat ordinary words. Link with pronouns and sentence shape, not furthermore/moreover. Tight adjacent thoughts can share a sentence; keep short sentences when the pause earns it.
• No keynote, Great question, I hope this helps. Start and stop at the answer. Stance: visible where expected, neutral where expected. Don't sand mild, don't manufacture a view.
• Avoid repeated patterns: parallel lists (three items still count), concession rhythm (not X, but Y), X-is-that wrappers, 'called' before nouns, identical paragraph arcs, stacked mini-sentences/false crispness. Break where they dominate.
• Long-form: pick a through-line (thematic, perspective-led, single-example-led), not chronology or catalog. Include an example, cumulative sentence, pause, or double back; don't rush to conclusion.
• Cut, don't add; don't chop related thoughts apart. Avoid em dashes, spaced or not. Hyphen temporary compounds before nouns, not after. No fake humanity. Don't strip structure for style.
• Check: register, anchors, regularity/continuity, stance, over-correction. Scrutinize (fallback, not bans): delve/leverage/seamless, it's important to note, unnamed experts, unsupported causality.