Blogging with AI
Peter Rawsthorne is back to blogging and today he published a post that discusses his process for writing in a time in which AI can be a useful writing companion. Here’s his process.
Step by Step my blogging will now follow this basic approach;
- Mind dump, capture ideas for new posts, be verbose, be imaginative, think about context
- Put these ideas to incomplete blog posts, work ideas for days, for weeks…
- Read extensively, add to the understanding of any specific idea
- Keep references, cut and paste to the bottom of the related incomplete posts
- Prompt AI with phrases from the idea generation
- Take blocks of text from written ideas and push them into generative AI, be critical, harvest what you can.
- Take the written blog post and ask AI for a rewrite. Change your audience. be critical, harvest what you can.
- Try and see, try and write, what AI cannot… add to the body of human knowledge.
- Find pictures to support the writing, format for engagement. Use AI to generate images from passages of text taken from the blog post.
- Format, edit, improve, repeat. Be bold… Publish.
- Rest, reflect, improve… Publish again.
Interesting. I’m curious how others are using AI in their writing. What’s your process?
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It will come as no surprise that my process is nothing like as exhaustive!
I do increasingly use Whisper Memo to dictate my posts as it is so reliably accurate.
I’m glad he includes “rest” in the end!
Sounds like quite a lot more work than just writing a blog! 🙂
Indeed!
Hello Chris.
Interesting process. This will probably validate and invalidate some of your writing but hey…isn’t blogging about writing what is on your mind ?
I would be afraid to contaminate my thinking process or to be influenced unjustifiably by the rest of the world. We are already inundated by the media, why should we add a layer of summarized content from AI.
I am not resisting Ai by the way.
I am also experimenting with it. But I still feel my blog posts should be mine and mine only. Adding hyperlinks to what inspired me is still a valid way to confirm or inform what I had written and not too intrusive for my mind.
But writing blog is still fun and let my weird brain do what is does best : connect the dots from all around in a way that still is too bizarre for an AI to figure out (hey, even I, have so surprises when I re read what I have written!).
Using a process to improve this using Ai does not seem like much fun…
I might be fun to organize a zoom call with blogger to discuss this! After all, writing blog is a complex process!
You and I are probably in the same boat. And yes to our weird brains doing interesting things!
One thing I find AI helpful at is providing structure,.eg Table of Contents, template, table/ list… caveat is that the AI feedback quality is directly tied to quality of the user’s ‘ask’; eg do I provide specificity, in detail and context, re the article/post topic I’m considering? If yes, then AI sometimes surprises me with the quality of its response.