Stop Slop

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Stop Slop helps improve writing by teaching Claude to identify and eliminate common AI writing patterns. It provides comprehensive lists of phrases, structures, and rhythms to avoid, along with before/after examples and a scoring rubric for evaluating prose quality.

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Stop Slop

Eliminate predictable AI writing patterns from prose.

Core Rules

  1. Cut filler phrases. Remove throat-clearing openers and emphasis crutches. See references/phrases.md.

  2. Break formulaic structures. Avoid binary contrasts, dramatic fragmentation, rhetorical setups. See references/structures.md.

  3. Vary rhythm. Mix sentence lengths. Two items beat three. End paragraphs differently.

  4. Trust readers. State facts directly. Skip softening, justification, hand-holding.

  5. Cut quotables. If it sounds like a pull-quote, rewrite it.

Quick Checks

Before delivering prose:

  • Three consecutive sentences match length? Break one.
  • Paragraph ends with punchy one-liner? Vary it.
  • Em-dash before a reveal? Remove it.
  • Explaining a metaphor? Trust it to land.

Scoring

Rate 1-10 on each dimension:

| Dimension | Question | |-----------|----------| | Directness | Statements or announcements? | | Rhythm | Varied or metronomic? | | Trust | Respects reader intelligence? | | Authenticity | Sounds human? | | Density | Anything cuttable? |

Below 35/50: revise.

Examples

See references/examples.md for before/after transformations.

License

MIT

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