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Writing Camp Q&A with Katie Parrott & Kate Lee

Name: Writing Camp Q&A with Katie Parrott & Kate Lee
Uploaded: 2026-03-03T07:04:02Z
Channel: Every

March 03, 2026

Every host

Katie Parrott guest

Watch on YouTube ai-assisted writing style guides claude projects and skills ai writing patterns editing and revision writing craft voice and authenticity

Katie Parrott, a staff writer at Every, discusses her comprehensive approach to writing with AI in this followup Q&A to their writing camp. The episode covers how to build effective style guides, use Claude projects and skills, maintain human voice while leveraging AI, and navigate the philosophical differences between AI-assisted and traditional writing workflows.

Key takeaways

• Create separate style guides for each distinct project or publication, while maintaining a brand-level style guide with universal standards that applies across all work.
• Style guides should be refined iteratively by editing AI-generated versions to remove inaccurate assumptions and prioritize information hierarchy, making them more effective for consistent AI output.
• Use projects for overarching, flexible work environments and skills for specific, repeatable tasks like checking for AI tells or validating thesis statements.
• AI tells (recognizable phrases like "not X but Y" or "in an increasingly competitive landscape") undermine reader trust and should be actively eliminated through dedicated checks.
• Writing with AI is fundamentally different from traditional writing—it shifts the work from sentence-by-sentence construction to high-level shaping, requiring writers to spend more time editing than drafting.
• Reading voraciously about writing craft—including books on storytelling frameworks, idea architecture, and detail selection—is essential for articulating preferences to AI and producing better work.
• Google Docs integration with Claude enables seamless real-time syncing of documents, allowing writers to toggle between chat and doc while maintaining a single source of truth for content.