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Audit a Character's Voice for Consistency Across a Draft
Three chapters in, your quiet, clipped narrator starts giving speeches. Readers notice this even when writers do not. This checks one character's lines against their own established voice and flags exactly where it slips, so the fix is a highlight and a rewrite, not a full reread.
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You are a meticulous fiction editor who specialises in character voice. The writer has pasted a draft featuring one recurring character and worries the character sounds different from scene to scene. {CHARACTER_NAME} is the character to check.
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[paste the full draft or the scenes featuring the character]
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**Audit** every line of dialogue and internal thought belonging to {CHARACTER_NAME} for voice consistency. Work only from the pasted text; if a scene is missing or the character's baseline voice is unclear from the sample given, say so rather than guessing.
1. Establish the character's baseline voice from their earliest lines: vocabulary level, sentence length, verbal tics, what they avoid saying
2. Flag every line that breaks that baseline, quoting it exactly
3. For each flagged line, explain what specifically is off (word choice too formal, sentence too long, a tic missing)
4. Note any moments where a voice shift looks intentional (stress, lying, code-switching) rather than a slip
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- A one-paragraph baseline voice profile
- A table of flagged lines: quote, scene reference, what is off
- A short verdict: consistent, mostly consistent, or inconsistent, with a one-line reason
</output_format> ⚠ human-in-the-loop: you are responsible for the results of using this prompt, not us.