Style Fingerprints

Your Style Fingerprint captures the essence of your writing voice — the patterns, rhythms, and choices that make your prose uniquely yours.

What is a Style Fingerprint?

A Style Fingerprint is a detailed analysis of your writing across multiple dimensions. It captures patterns that are difficult to articulate but easy to recognize — the things that make your writing sound like you.

What Gets Analyzed

Tone & Voice — The emotional quality and personality of your writing. Are you formal or casual? Intimate or distant? Warm or detached?
Sentence Structure — How you build sentences. Short and punchy? Long and flowing? A particular mix of both?
Vocabulary & Diction — The words you choose. Simple and direct? Rich and ornate? Technical or accessible?
Rhythm & Pacing — The cadence of your prose. How you vary sentence length, use punctuation, and control the reader's experience.
Stylistic Patterns — Recurring techniques like specific metaphor types, dialogue tags, paragraph structures, and transitional phrases.

Word Count Matters

For the best results, your fingerprint should be based on at least 5,000-10,000 words. More text means more accurate pattern detection.

Creating a Style Fingerprint

Steps to Create

Upload your writing samples to a project
Go to the Styles tab in your project
Click Create Style Fingerprint
Give your fingerprint a descriptive name
Wait for analysis (a few minutes for large documents)

You can create multiple fingerprints per project — useful if you write in different styles for different contexts (e.g., a "Narrative" fingerprint and a "Dialogue-Heavy" fingerprint).

Using Style Fingerprints

Once created, your Style Fingerprint powers several features:

Generate Text

Create new content in your voice. Give Idioscript a prompt or topic, and it generates text that matches your established patterns. The output sounds like you because it's based on your actual writing.

Authorship Reminder: Generated text is meant as a starting point or exploratory draft. You remain responsible for reviewing, editing, and taking ownership of any material you choose to use.

Rewrite & Edit

Transform existing text to match your style. Paste in any text — an AI draft, a rough outline, notes — and rewrite it in your voice. Great for making AI-generated content sound authentically yours.

Responsible Use Note: Rewrite and edit tools are intended to help you refine drafts, align tone, and bring rough material into your established voice. Always ensure that using AI-assisted rewriting is permitted for your intended use, particularly in academic or evaluative settings.

Continue Writing

Extend your existing text seamlessly. Idioscript continues where you left off, maintaining your style, tone, and narrative voice. Useful for overcoming blocks or generating variations to choose from.

Style Adherence Check

Verify if text matches your style. Useful for checking AI-generated content, ghostwritten material, or your own work from years ago. Get a score and specific feedback on what does or doesn't match.

Style adherence checks can also help identify when text sounds overly generic or inconsistent with your established voice — useful for spotting content that feels artificial or out of character.

Style Fingerprints in Brainstorming

When you brainstorm in Idioscript, your Style Fingerprint adds context that makes suggestions more relevant to your actual writing practice.

Style-Aware Brainstorming

When brainstorming with a Style Fingerprint active, Idioscript considers your established patterns when suggesting:

Dialogue approaches that match your character voice style
Scene structures that fit your pacing preferences
Descriptive techniques aligned with your vocabulary level
Plot developments suited to your narrative rhythm

Updating Fingerprints

Your writing evolves, and your fingerprints can too. Update a fingerprint anytime to incorporate new documents or refined samples.

When to Update — After adding significant new writing to your project, or if your style has intentionally shifted.
Version Tracking — Fingerprints are versioned. You can see when each was created and last updated.
Derived-Only Mode — In Derived-Only projects, fingerprints auto-update when new documents are processed. No manual update needed.

Best Practices

Use diverse samples — include dialogue, description, action, and introspection for comprehensive analysis.

Name fingerprints clearly — "Mystery Novel Voice" is better than "Fingerprint 1".

Create project-specific fingerprints — your blog voice may differ from your fiction voice.

Review the analysis — check that the detected patterns match your understanding of your style.

Update after major additions — when you add substantial new content, refresh your fingerprint.