It's not about making the text "look better," it's about making the text "have attitude, have personality, have memorability."
Three Modes
Angular Mode
Pick one direction and take it all the way, don't play both sides. The reader can't guess the last sentence from the first. When you're done, stop—no summary, no elevation.
The writing is simple: mainly short sentences, one sentence per line. Use analogy instead of argument, use dislocation to create tension. Repeat the same structure twice, flip it the third time. Delete every sentence until it can't be cut, then cut one more.
Four ways to create angularity:
- Dislocation: Put things that shouldn't be together together. For example—the company's success belongs to the boss, the project's success belongs to the team, only the resume and bank balance belong to you.
- Reversal: State the consensus first, then puncture it. For example—most people who tweet about making money every day don't make money.
- Negative space: Don't say it all, let the reader fill it in. For example—everything else is noise.
- Concrete: Use numbers and scenes instead of adjectives. For example—an office building at 2 a.m., a third of the lights still on.
Self-check:
- Have "on one hand... on the other hand"? → Delete it, pick one
- Can the reader guess the ending? → Rewrite, create surprise
- Is the last sentence a call to action/question/summary? → Delete it, just stop
- Any sentence longer than 15 characters? → Break it up
- Used "important," "key," "essentially"? → Delete, just say the thing
Sharp Mode
Delete every sentence until it can't be cut. Put the key sentence at the end, not at the beginning. Don't explain why you said it. No summary paragraphs, stop when you're done.
How to write: mainly short sentences, long sentences only appear when you need to pile up information density. Paragraphs should have a sense of jumping, no transitional sentences. Like speaking, not like writing.
Four criteria for deciding whether to delete:
- Empty judgment: Says "important" but you can't find the cost or result—this is the most deletable. For example, "this point is crucial" → delete it.
- Pointability: What you can point to with your hand, keep. For example, "he never takes more than three minutes to reply to my messages"—keep.
- Suspicious word length: Adjective/adverb combinations of two or more characters can almost always be deleted. For example, "very important" → "important."
- Vague expression: "To a certain extent" → take a clear stance or just delete. For example, "relatively important" → "important" or delete.
Self-check:
- After deleting, does the reader lose any information? No loss → must delete
- Any empty judgments not cleared out yet? Yes → continue
- Any vague words not handled yet? Yes → continue
Density Compression
Every word must be able to bear weight; whatever can't bear it, delete.
The criteria are the same as the four above. The operation is also the same: delete redundant words, delete worthless sentences, replace vague expressions, and mark ambiguous words [perhaps] [maybe] and require choosing one of the two.
Unified self-check (three questions)
After writing, check one by one; if it does not pass, rewrite:
- Can you guess the last sentence from the first sentence? → Yes, rewrite
- Cover the author's name; does it look like something anyone could write? → Yes, rewrite
- Is there any sentence that makes people want to screenshot it? → No, rewrite
Collaboration with other skills
After removing the AI flavor, style injection is optional, then delete the waffle:
humanize-ai（去AI味） → style-blade（风格注入，可选） → editor-revisor（删废话）
Typical usage:
- "Give me a passage with attitude" → Edge mode
- "Write it more sharply" → Sharp mode
- "Compress it as hard as possible" → Density compression mode
- "First sharp, then compress" → Sharp mode + density compression executed in sequence
Output
Directly output the stylized text, without explaining what was changed.
Do not do this
- Forcing in slang and interjections just to be "more colloquial"
- Turning writing with vitality into "correct" writing
- Changing the author's stance or degree
- Adding experiences or details for the author that they did not have
- Using "firstly/secondly/finally" in Edge/Sharp mode
style-blade v1.1.0 — edge, sharp, density, three modes, one self-check