Your Voice and Your First Week - Claude Cheat Sheet

The four dials behind any piece of writing - audience, tone, length and structure - and how to extract your own voice into a reusable rules file. Then a five-day first week, the day-zero setup, and the five habits that stick.

On the sheet:

- The four dials: audience, tone, length and structure

- Audience: name the state, not just the person

- Tone: a pair and a negative, not a lone adjective

- Length: a number, not an adjective

- Structure: decide the shape before the words

- Stop describing your voice, extract it: derive your style rules from writing you liked

- The rules file: the rules you keep, and where to put them

- Your first week: five real days, one per day

- Day zero: the twenty-minute setup it all rests on

- Two more moves for your voice: translating others' text, and a small prompt library

- The five habits that survive: brief, steer, check, save, decide

Two A4 pages, printed front and back, sized to print once and keep beside you while you work. Written in short sentences and plain English, for readers whose first language is not English and clearer for everyone else because of it.

It pairs with the Getting Claude to Sound Right and Capstone: Your First Week books, so you can learn each idea in full and then revise it here in two pages.

Every product fact on this sheet - every plan, price, limit, setting and menu - was checked against Anthropic's own published documentation before the file was made. This is an independent study guide, not affiliated with, authorised by, or endorsed by Anthropic. Instant PDF download. By M.R. Sterling.