Artificial Intelligence (or AI) is becoming more prevalent in almost every industry that uses technology. Writing is no exception. In this course, I'll teach you how to ethically use AI Writing Tools to speed up your blog writing process in a way that ensures you are still writing high quality meaningful text for your audience.
The key to co-writing effectively with AI is to be very strategic about the content that you feed into the program. The right prompts and approaches will help ensure that the AI gives you useful text that you can edit and modify for your purposes.
In this course, we're going to cover the following topics:
1. Background and Tool Options
In this video you'll get a brief lesson on what an AI Writing Tool is, how it works, and what kind of content it can generate. I'll discuss a couple options for tools that you might want to consider trying (but there are many, many out there)!
2. Ethics and Use Cases
There are so many ongoing discussions about AI and ethical use that it's hard to keep up sometimes. I'll share a couple of points that will give you an insight into the types of discussions that are ongoing in this field. This is good stuff to know before using any AI tools for your writing or business.
3. Generating Blog Topic Ideas
The first step to creating a blog post is to have a great idea, and in this video I'll share six different ways that you can generate ideas for your blog that people in your audience actually want to read.
4. Create an Outline
A great outline is the first step in using AI efficiently for writing tasks. We'll go over the structure of a blog post and what kind of prompts you need to generate to get started feeding the AI Writing Tool you choose to use.
5. Feeding Your AI Prompts
I'll show you the process of putting your outline into an AI Writing Tool and generating content around it. There are some specific tips and tricks that you can consider to get the best results from your artificially intelligent co-writer.
6. Editing and Rewriting
Once you've got your generated text, it's time to clean it up so that it reads like a properly written piece of text. I'll share some of my top editing tips, and show a couple of examples of text that the program wrote and how it could be improved.
7. Other Uses
AI Writing Tools aren't just for blog posts! I'll share a couple of examples of how else you might want to use the skills that you've learned from this course. The sky is the limit, so get creative with how else you might co-create interesting text!
By the end of this course, you'll be able to get started using an AI Writing Tool to generate relevant text for your blog that can be edited and shaped into an informative article. Goodbye, writer's block!
