I admit that I am super excited by all the AI tools available and possible, while at the same time concerned that they could or might take about my job and passion: writing stories.
So, I started playing with Chat GPT back in November 2022 and was annoyed at how it couldn't spit out story ideas that I liked.
I don't have any problems coming up with story ideas and I do understand story structure quite well, so the tool wasn't helpful to me.
Then I tried my hand at using it for editing. And hated how it would rewrite sentences. So dry. So not... me.
Next, I tried having it analyze my writing. That was helpful. It put words to my style that felt like me, approximately.
Which in turn helps me make choices when I edit.
I don't know about you, but I have a hard time seeing myself.
As Kelly Diels says, "We can't see the back of our head."
All the while, I've been studying how to write prompts, so that I can give better directions to Chat GPT.
And then I started playing with marketing, and that's where my excitement level shoot over the roof.
For example, I shared one of my book blurbs and I asked Chat GPT to write 5 Twitter/X posts with hashtags and in a chatty voice.
And I also told it to not invent anything.
I hit "return," sat back, and was about to take a sip of my coffee, when boom, my results were in!
I re-read the tweets and they were decent.
Ah! Now I had a first draft to work from and smiled. I could go to town polishing them up and getting them loaded in our social scheduling tool.
Just so you know I've also had Chat GPT (and similar tools) to write other first drafts for me like:
writing marketing emails (but not this one!)
condensing long information
writing LinkedIn and Facebook posts and Instagram captions
listing possible sub-ideas connected to a main idea in nonfiction (this is a brainstorming action)
So there you go - a little bit of my take on Chat GPT and the current AI tools.
And a sneak peek of what I might bring to the panel during the AI Writing Summit next week.
Details next!
