Blog #2: Lesson One, AI Writers Block

The first thing I am learning: AI is one of the greatest writing blocks.

I've spent a lot of time sharing my ideas, thoughts, and research with my AI assistant. It's been easiest for me to keep track of all of my thoughts that I have so I don’t forget them. Eventually, when it came to starting my book over... again... I asked it to give me a summary of everything I'd said to it based on the topic so I could start forming an outline for my book and also remember a lot of what I've said.

It gave me summaries and chapter suggestions that I inputted for the bones of my book.

Big Mistake. HUGE!

Now that I have the time to sit down and start writing my book, it’s hard to cypher through what’s me and what’s AI. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve written for long enough and edited plenty of others papers/resumes/etc to know my writing voice very distinctly. But the time it’s taking for me to scrub stuff that clearly isn’t mine is so time-consuming that I might as well have started fresh with no AI summaries.

I’m not sure where I stand on it completely. I can see the benefit in having a virtual assistant to assist in keeping logs of my thoughts and notes. However, you would have to be very specific in your prompts that it’s logging your words rather than taking them in so that when you go back for it, it’s your words, not AI’s summary.Also at the same time, I think it can be challenging to then separate yourself from the assistant and can lead to writer's block for people who are really dedicated to their craft.

Anyways, I just want to share my experience so that others can learn from my mistakes, follow my journey, and take tips from my eventual successes.

Thalia, out. ✌️