ChatGPT has 5x'ed my writing productivity, because I get it to write my shitty first draft.
I'm not exaggerating.
Let me explain.
For the past few weeks, I’ve been writing 400-800 word lessons every day for my Bottleneck Detective BootCamp email course.
I got started by using ChatGPT to help me create a story about a young bottleneck detective called Billy Brown, in the style of the 1970s Encyclopedia Brown kids books.
The initial (shitty first) draft felt like it was written by a 12 year old, but it gave me a solid foundation to build on.
From then on, each day, I’d tell ChatGPT what I wanted the next lesson to cover, and within seconds, I’d get a (shitty first) draft.
None were good, but they were good enough.
Good enough to get me started.
I'd spend 30 minutes to 2 hours rewriting each lesson, tweaking until I was happy.
And then my body hurts and the writing part of my brain is depleted for the day.
Previously, without ChatGPT,
- writing that same 400-600 words, including my shitty first draft, from scratch,
- would take me four to six hours.
But,
- I can't physically or mentally write well for 4 to 6 hours a day,
- so I would spread that writing over a week, or more,
- writing 90 minutes each day.
And that's how I write 5 lessons a week, not 1 - a genuine 5x improvement.
This is one of the best things that's ever happened to me.