Writing

Field notes on voice

The research and the reasoning behind Timbrel — stylometry, the psychology of style, and what it takes to make a model sound like a person instead of a model.

The objection, answered

Why “write like me” never works

You can ask a chatbot to sound like you all day. The three reasons it can’t comply are specific, and they point straight at the thing that does.

7 min read · Written with a Timbrel voiceprint
The research, in plain English

The science of sounding like yourself

Stylometry spent a century recognizing a writer from a handful of throwaway words. Here is what that research says about why AI prose feels generic, and how you hand a model your fingerprint back.

9 min read · Written with a Timbrel voiceprint