write-well

Great prose has a person behind it: a voice, a body, opinions, a sense of rhythm. The patterns that make writing "sound like AI" (significance inflation, rule-of-three, em-dash spray, flat reporting) are symptoms of one disease: no voice. So the move is positive. Add craft and voice, and the tells disappear on their own. Subtracting tells from voiceless prose just gives you cleaner voiceless prose.

Two modes

Both modes serve the same core. They just enter from different ends.

The core — what good prose has (both modes)