Blending AI and Traditional Writing Techniques is the New Wave

With all of the advances in artificial intelligence, it’s easy to get that sinking feeling that what we write isn’t needed anymore. I mean, we can just give an AI tool like ChatGPT a prompt, and it can do all of our writing for us, right? Let me tell you, friend. There’s nothing further from the truth.?

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Fusing AI technology and traditional writing techniques to write content is the new wave and it will eventually transform from what some view as just a trend into a widely accepted way of writing.?

I’ll keep yelling it from the rooftops: Learn how to use AI tools to write content now or risk being left behind those who know how to use them. That means learning the best and most ethical ways to use it to write website content, blog posts, social media captions, and much, much more.?

In this post, we’ll look at how content writers can use AI as a writing assistant to accelerate their productivity and make the writing process easier.?

Ways AI Tools Can Help You Write Content

The key to blending artificial intelligence and traditional writing techniques is understanding what AI can and can’t do.?

For the content writer, it’s important to know that while AI can write content reasonably well, it isn’t yet good at capturing the nuances of human emotion in words. It also lacks the knowledge gleaned from lived experiences that builds expertise. Truthfully, AI tools aren’t good at a variety of things. That’s why it’s a bad idea to cut content from an AI tool and paste it directly into your website or social media accounts.?

Although this is true, AI tools are really good at quite a few things that can be immensely helpful to content writers.

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Brainstorming

AI tools like PI, Copilot and ChatGPT are wonderful at helping determine the best things to write about based on your target audience’s demographics and psychographics. All you need to do is tell it about your audience and content goals and it can generate lists of topics in seconds.?

AI tools can also:?

• Analyze market trends
• Assess competitor content?
• Analyze user engagement data
• Identify gaps in the content landscape

You can use all of this valuable information to jumpstart your research or inform your writing.?

Outlining

Once you figure out what to write, you can use AI tools to generate an outline of the content you need to create. This is helpful for a few reasons. The AI-generated outline may contain ways of approaching the content you haven’t considered and, if you use it as a first draft, it can reduce the time it takes to complete a final outline because some of the work has already been done for you.?

Drafting

Speaking of first drafts, if staring at a blank document fills you with dread, or you’re in a time crunch and you need to get multiple things written fast AI tools can take the work of writing a first draft off your hands. All you have to do is explain what you need to write, provide important information about your target audience and tell it the tone and style you’d like the content written in and it can generate a complete first draft in less time than it takes you to turn on your laptop. It can even include a list of the most relevant keywords you can use.?

Research

Did you know you can ask ChatGPT for a list of sources you can use for your research? You’ll need to be specific about what you need to get the best results.?

Here’s a sample prompt you can revise to fit your needs:?

Can you generate a list of sources for a blog post on Beyonce's latest album? Pull sources directly from the Internet and generate a clickable source list.

Editing & Proofreading

Use AI-powered tools to assess your writing and ask for ideas for improvement, check grammar, consistency, style, and spelling, or detect plagiarism.?

The Human Touch

AI tools are far from perfect, so you’ll need to do your part at every step of the writing process by adding that special human touch that AI can’t generate.??

Add Emotion

Revise AI-generated content and add words that trigger emotion in your readers or convey what they may likely feel in a given situation.?

Blend Keywords?

Take that AI-generated list of keywords and blend each term into your content so your sentences, headers and titles read effortlessly.?

Be Creative?

Take that blah AI-generated draft and infuse it with the brand of humor your audience appreciates, change the tone to one that better suits your brand and add colorful language that reflects your distinct voice and brand personality.?

Include Personal experiences

ChatGPT wasn’t there on your first day on the job, when you overcame hardship step by difficult step, or when you came up with that amazing product idea while you were out walking your dog. These personal experiences are things only humans can share and that are unique to every one of us. That’s why adding storytelling, expert advice, interviews, documented processes and personal experiences to AI-generated content helps you bond with your audience and adds authenticity to your content.?

Check AI-Generated Content

Edit AI-generated content to eliminate repetition and correct inaccurate information and formatting. Sometimes AI tools don’t follow the prompts they’re given completely, so there may be times when you’ll need to add detail to your instructions or take an entirely different approach to get the content you need. When it comes to AI tools, you’re in control. They can only do what you instruct them to.?

Learning how to use AI tools and blend artificial intelligence and traditional writing techniques not only allows you to acquire a newly in-demand skill set; it puts a wealth of information at your fingertips and helps make the content writing process easier.

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