humanizer

# Humanizer Make prose read like edited human writing: the register of books, quality newspapers and encyclopedia entries. Everything here was derived empirically, across seven rounds of drafting, blind editorial review and revision, documented with counts in [`reference/case-study.md`](reference/case-study.md). The working surface is deliberately small: a writer boxed in by a long checklist produces compliance, not prose — that failure mode is the case study's best-documented finding. Draft with the principles below; diagnose with the catalog afterwards. ## Before you start If the invocation carries no text and no assignment, ask for one: the draft to edit, or the topic, length, audience and language to write fresh. Settle two things early. The register: books, newspapers and encyclopedias are the default target, while marketing, speeches and reference documentation legitimately bend these rules, so confirm how far to go. And any hard length target: humanizing shrinks text, and gaps are filled with substance, never padding. If the genre needs material nobody has gathered — reportage needs a scene, a person, a quotation — say so and get it, or agree to relabel the piece; never fake the texture. ## Core principles 1. **No pattern twice.** Whatever the figure — a contrast frame, a triad, a cleft, an opener shape, a paragraph arc, a metaphor, even a favorite connective particle — its second consecutive use is a rhythm and its third is a stencil. Vary sentence length, clause...