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Build Your Own Personal AI Writer (The Step-by-Step Guide Most People Won’t Share)

I’ve been building custom GPTs for months now, and one question keeps coming up: “How do you get AI to write in YOUR voice?”

This isn’t just about having AI help you write – it’s about having AI that writes exactly like you would. The difference is massive, especially when you’re busy but still want to maintain your authentic presence online.

I’ve developed a straightforward method for creating a personal AI writer, and today I’m pulling back the curtain on exactly how to do it yourself.

Why Your Own AI Writer Changes Everything

Before we dive into the how-to, let’s quickly cover why this matters:

• You can drastically increase your content output without sacrificing your authentic voice
• You can overcome writer’s block by asking your AI to draft something in your style
• You can maintain consistency in your communications even when you’re stretched thin

The key here is that we’re not trying to replace your writing – we’re trying to extend your capacity while maintaining what makes your writing uniquely yours.

The 5-Step Process to Build Your Personal AI Writer

Here’s the exact process I used to create my own personal writer. Follow these steps and you’ll have your own in under an hour (plus waiting time for LinkedIn).

Step 1: Gather Your Writing Samples

You need to give the AI examples of your writing, and lots of them. For me, LinkedIn posts were the perfect source since that’s where I do most of my writing. Here’s how to download yours:

1. Go to LinkedIn and click on your profile in the upper right corner
2. Select “Settings & Privacy”
3. Go to “Data Privacy” on the left menu
4. Click on “Get a copy of your data” on the right
5. Select “Download larger data archive” and click “Request archive”

LinkedIn will take a couple of days to prepare your data, so be patient. When it’s ready, you’ll get a CSV file with all your posts.

Pro tip: If you write primarily on other platforms, collect 20-30 samples of your writing from there instead. Blog posts, newsletters, even emails can work.

Step 2: Create a Writing Style Analysis Framework

This is where most people go wrong. They just dump their writing into AI and hope it figures out their style. But there’s a better way.

Go to ChatGPT and use this exact prompt:

“You are an expert writer and teacher. Can you outline what should be included in a writing file that would help you write in my voice?”

ChatGPT will generate a comprehensive outline covering things like:

• Personal writing style
• Tone and voice
• Language and vocabulary
• Structure preferences
• Themes and topics
• Audience considerations

Step 3: Have AI Analyze Your Writing Style

Now, open a fresh ChatGPT window and use this prompt:

“You are an expert writer and teacher. Please analyze my LinkedIn post CSV file and create a writing profile for me based on the following outline:”

Then paste in the outline from Step 2 and upload your CSV file from LinkedIn.

ChatGPT will analyze your writing and create a detailed profile of your style. This is fascinating – you’ll learn things about your own writing that you never consciously realized!

Step 4: Convert the Analysis into Instructions

Next, we need to transform this analysis into instructions for your custom GPT. Ask ChatGPT:

“Now rewrite this as instructions for a custom GPT to write as me.”

This changes statements like “Your style is informative yet casual” into commands like “Adopt an informative yet casual writing style.”

Step 5: Create Your Custom GPT

Now we’ll build the actual custom GPT:

1. Go to the GPT builder (click “Create” in the upper right of the ChatGPT interface)
2. Skip the guided creation and go directly to “Configure”
3. Name your GPT and add a profile picture (I used my actual photo)
4. In the instructions field, start with: “You are my personal expert copywriter. Use the following guidelines to write as [your name]:”
5. Paste in your rewritten style guidelines from Step 4
6. Add additional rules like “Always write in the first person” and “Never use complex words when simpler words will do”
7. Upload your original writing samples in the Knowledge section

And that’s it! You now have a custom GPT that writes remarkably like you.

Making the Most of Your Personal AI Writer

Here are some ways I’ve been using my AI writer:

• Drafting LinkedIn posts when I have an idea but limited time
• Creating first drafts of email responses that I can then personalize
• Overcoming writer’s block by asking it to start a piece for me
• Rewriting content from others in my voice so it feels more natural

The key is to remember that this is a tool to amplify your voice, not replace it. I still review and edit everything before it goes out, but starting with content that already sounds like me saves tremendous time.

Why This Matters Now More Than Ever

As AI becomes more integrated into marketing workflows, the people who can maintain their authentic voice while leveraging AI’s efficiency will have a massive advantage.

Your personal AI writer isn’t just a productivity hack – it’s a competitive edge in a world where everyone is using the same generic AI tools.

Want to learn more about implementing AI marketing strategies like this one? I’d love to hear how you’re using your own personal AI writer after you build it!

In this episode of the AI-Driven Marketer, Dan Sanchez shares his journey of mastering AI and his recent exploration into building custom GPTs. He discusses the process of creating a personal AI writer based on his own writing style using LinkedIn posts. He takes you through the steps of exporting data, generating an outline, and creating a writing style guide for the AI. Join us to learn how you can train your own AI to write like you and accelerate your workflow. Don't miss out on this step-by-step guide to building your personal AI writer in this Behind the Bot series.

Shownote Links:

• The writing style prompt mentioned in the episode can be found here: https://aimircoskills.com/episode/personal-writer-bot

Timestamps:

00:00 Creating different types of custom GPTs for various uses.

04:44 Custom GPT trained without comment and like data.

07:44 Outline writing instructions for custom GPT style.

10:56 Export data, create style guide, generate outline.

hello and welcome back to the AI microskills podcast I'm Dan Sanchez my friends call me Sanchez and I'm just a marketer I'm just a marketer on a journey to master AI in 2024 and this episode is me documenting some of the lessons that I've learned that I'd like to pass on to you I've been building a lot of custom gpt's and I've been talking about them on LinkedIn some people have been asking me and are curious about how I make them as I'd like to maybe make some for themselves so here I'm going to start a new series called behind the bot or I'm going to be documenting How I build some of these custom GPS selfishly so I can better educate myself because you know when you teach you like truly starting to grass but what it is you're doing so I'm trying to teach it in order to master it myself because that's the goal for 2024 but also just kind of

read it put it out there and show people how I'm doing it so you could do it for yourself even just steal what I'm doing and then do it for your like just use my bots out right I'm trying to give them away I'm not trying to monetize I'm just trying to learn how to do this thing so there are a number of different types of custom gpt's that I've made and I've kind of have them down into four categories so far they are co-pilots are essentially business co-pilots where you can have like a bunch of different business documents that you can even start combined together in order to help it like consult your coach you through some business decisions very helpful there is a personal writer and that's the one I'm going to be diving into deeper today but there's also things like document search GPS and single use GPS that are very effective and are actually accelerating a lot of my workflows

today I want to talk about how to build a personal writer yes how do you train GPT on how you write so that it can write better on your behalf now I found a method of how to build this and I want to share it with you and to do so we have to start with LinkedIn cuz that's where I'm writing now you can actually train a personal writer in any types of writing that you're doing whether it's blog posts or some other kind of post as long as it's written content you want to train it to learn how to write like you one caveat before we dive into how I've done this with my LinkedIn post and building custom GPS is that there is a massive video component component I'm going to be sharing my screen this whole time if you're just listening so tune into the video cuz it'll be very

I have the visual cues along the way or just go reference it later go dive back into the part where you can scroll back to the video where you want to see how to do it you don't have to watch it I am recording this is what I call a video audio first video so you'll be able to get like 90% of this without watching a single frame I'm going to be describing in detail what I'm seeing but it is helpful to watch right if you're a visual learner like me you like to be able to see what the person is doing so tune into the video you can watch it on Apple podcast yes you can watch the support video you can watch it on YouTube you can even watch it on AI micro skills.com if you're on Spotify or any other podcast players I'm sorry they don't support video or at least Spotify would if it didn't just support its own post

watch the video follow along but if you're not you're still going to be able to get 90% of this even if you're only listening so let's dive in like I said you can train it on any kinds of written content I trained it on LinkedIn so let's talk about how to download all your LinkedIn Post in order to upload it to Chachi BT I'm on the LinkedIn home screen right now clicking on the little profile that says me up in the upper right hand corner I am going to settings and privacy in settings and privacy I'm going over to the left hand screen I'm going to data privacy and then I'm going to go over now back to the right hand side of the menu it says get a copy of your data this is been available for a long time and

start playing with this years ago and I never really found a good use for this but now now that we can train things with AI or train AI on things is to become a really helpful thing you can click you want to click download larger data archive you can pick and choose but there's not like I would just download my post but it doesn't give you an option for just your post which is weird so go ahead and download the larger one click request archive and then the request will be pending it takes them a couple of days to pull it all together I guess so you'll have to pause your efforts here if you're following along and trying to do it because it's going to take LinkedIn a while luckily I've already done this so I'm going to show you what I did next so while that's happening in the all the data is coming down I could show you here on this number sheet I have

are you a CSV with the date of the post and then a cell with a post itself and I have you can see I have hundreds and hundreds of posterior and they're all formatted properly like how I did them it's just hundreds of post so it doesn't really matter that's all all it gives you it doesn't give you any comment or like data that would have been nice to see the view counts cuz then it could have been trained on you know the popularity of your post like your best post but you know this is still good so we're trying to trade on the writing style more than just like your best post so how do we get it to train it here I'm going to go over to chat chippy and show you how I kind of use chat GPT in order to build a custom GPS just because you're building a custom GPS doesn't mean AI can't help you build it

this is what I did I went to chat GPT just the normal plain old one and I said you are an expert writer and teacher this was the prompt can you outline what should be included in a writing profile that would help you write in my voice that was the prompt I gave it what it gave me back was fantastic it gave me back like let's see 10 major sections two bullet points per section the sections are as follows personal writing style tone and Voice language of vocabulary structure and preferences themes and topics audience consideration examples of past writing goals and objectives feedback and adjustments personal influences I was like fantastic I opened up a whole new I copied and pasted this opened up a whole new

add GPT window and said you are an expert writer and teacher please analyze my LinkedIn post CSV file and create a writing profile for me Dan Sanchez based on the following outline and then I pasted the outline that it gave me I'm giving back to it I'm like okay use this outline that you gave me because I'm not I'm not an English major I'm not a professional writer I don't understand all the nuances and how I write though I write enough to have nuances that a professional would be able to pick out because I've sat down with some ghost riders or for like oh yeah you're you're very direct and authoritative yeah that's your writing style like I am oh well but if you're like me and you don't understand like the new monsters of it you're kind of like I don't know you probably do better so I gave it that I gave it the outline and I gave it to CSV and that's where the magic starts

it's like and this is what she gave back to me it said based on the analysis of your LinkedIn post here is your writing profile Dan Sanchez and then it went in detail did it filled it in what it says about me like just to give you an example under personal writing style it gave a general style your writing style is primarily informative and Casual you have a knack for blending informative content with the conversational tone making complex topics accessible and engaging I'm like wow yeah I guess I do do that favorite phrases and stylish choices you frequently use rhetorical questions and direct and direct address you to engage the reader your post often start with thought-provoking statements or questions that draw the reader in tone and voice tone your tone is predominantly

stick and engaging and I can go on and on but you're not listening or watching this just to learn what dance Sanchez is writing style is you need to figure out how to get it to do it do it yourself so now you're following along the first step was get your LinkedIn post second step is get the the outline if you don't want to prompt it the way I did and you just want the outline that I used I will include a link in the website to download a file of what I gave it specifically to prompt to get this writing style now so or you can just walk through the exact same steps I would did to get it it might give you something slightly different because that's AI right it's always a little bit different every time you prompt it with the same thing so it gave it back to me now

and the way it gave it to me I did notice like it's it's giving me an explanation back to me and I needed it to be a little bit different so I prompted it with now rewrite this as instructions for a custom GPT to write as me so now it's speaking directly to the box so now instead of your style is it's just saying adopted in a four foot of style yet casual writing style blend informative content with the conversational tone to make complex topics engaging in accessible it's writing directly to it's almost as an instruction to the cheapest which is better so then I took this instructions for Dan's writer GPS copied and pasted it all of this not the little thing at the end but just the whole writing style section I got it all and then

moved over to building a custom GPT which if you haven't been back there it's at the very top you can say Explorer gpt's and there's a green button in the upper right hand corner that says create right and then you get to this create I always I always go to the configure you don't want it to help you build it you want to configure it yourself cuz it's not that hard so here I have the finished one where you get to name it I just called the Dan shows righter I uploaded a picture of myself instead of giving it a nice little icon like some other custom gbt's I've done because this is my personal writing assistant I just described it as my personal writing to system pretty simple doesn't really affect the how it works well and this is where the instructions that I uploaded to it says you are

play Dan Sanchez personal expert copywriter use the following guidelines to write as Dan Sanchez and then I pasted in exactly the analysis that it gave with the outline of let's see what I put in here again it's the same stuff of writing style phrases and choices tone and Voice language and vocabulary structural preferences themes and topics I think I left out examples but I did upload into the knowledge area all those LinkedIn post just in case I wanted to reference it for some specific reason the knowledge is there for it to go into and then I added a few additional rules that after using this that I found I just you can add little rules as you go and you're like hey I always want you to do this I always want you to do that to the rules that I found helpful is always right

first person because if it's your personal GPT then it should write as you write so it had to give it that instruction at the end and then never use complex words when simpler words will do that was the other little tidbit that I gave it just to simplify the language down a little bit cuz you know Chad GPT can be a little wordy sometimes and I'm less worthy so to write as me and I find that this writer is much better than the normal chat tpd is writing as Dan Sanchez so those are the steps one export your export your data it's best if it's in a CSV but if it's in a PDF of blog post or whatever you have is your writing style you need to generate an outline or a guide to give it to mash with to do analysis on your post and then create a writing style based on the

again if you go to AI microskills.com slash episode slash personal Dash writer - bot sorry I no longer episode Link in the show notes then you can just download what I gave it and the prompt and then upload it with your CSV in order to get your your style guide for it and then you could just take and then you just follow this video and kind of prompt at the same way I find all custom GPS need like a preface as a prompt like you are this is who you are now follow these instructions right and then you have it you can just save it as only me unless you want to save it out to anyone with the link don't have to go and save it

I just added the photo recently and Bam you now have a GPT that can write as you so hopefully this has been helpful if you like the series let me know behind the bot there's a few more to come but I'll continue doing it if I get good feedback so let me know and if this has been helpful it would bless me tremendously if you could leave a review in your podcast player or just even not even a review just just give it the Stars you think it deserves if you leave a review that's a bonus but just just give it a rating let me know how you thought of it and thanks so much for tuning with me on this