Great Writing with ChatGPT | A Complete Hands-on Guide

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Discover core principles for effective writing in ChatGPT—essential for high-quality output. We’ll focus on big-picture things to continually keep in mind when working with AI tools like ChatGPT. We will also focus on how to approach writing style and tone for different contexts and audiences. The goal? To take full advantage of ChatGPT's capabilities while maintaining a human touch.

Harness the power of outlines for longer well-structured writing. In this lesson, we will focus on writing a full blog post. Fine-tune your style, tone, and more with ChatGPT's adjustable "knobs." Combine outlines and knobs for precise refinement and impactful content creation. This approach is one of the best to get compelling and polished writing.

Unlock efficiency and consistency with content creation by leveraging tailored templates. This approach is most useful for repetitive tasks, or content with a similar structure but different content each time. We will explore the example of a customer service email. Learn to customize templates for a unique touch that suits your needs. By the end, you will know how to adapt templates for different platforms and purposes, including optimized social media and marketing copy.

Experience an iterative process with ChatGPT, refining writing back and forth for optimal results. We will go over how to provide the necessary information and context to get accurate and useful writing for all kinds of use cases. There is real power in the iterative approach because you can then use the output as a template, serving as a foundation for similar tasks. We will explore a specific example prompt for crafting a cover letter with ChatGPT in the role of ‘computer’.

Craft a compelling resume or CV with help from your expert AI career specialist. Highlight your skills and achievements effectively. Tailor each section, as well as the style and format, to stand out to potential employers. Better yet, customize 20 different resumes without sacrificing quality.

Craft engaging social media posts and persuasive digital marketing copy using the template approach. Adapt this to your needs to fit your style, and once you find that perfect fit, that perfect post or script that feels like ‘you’, lock it in! Now ChatGPT is your highly-qualified writing assistant.

Generate impactful content for presentations using ChatGPT as a specialist in any given field, or perhaps a teacher’s assistant for a lazy teacher who simply can’t be bothered. Structure your presentation effectively for clarity and coherence. We will look at requesting different levels of input from ChatGPT, depending on the situation. This is where ChatGPT becomes a ‘gap filler’ adding insightful bits for whatever is missing from a given template. It’s really cool!

Leverage ChatGPT to generate insightful and thought-provoking interview questions…or use it to create questions, ideas, titles--many things. This is where the iterative approach really shines, particularly when we make use of clear verb-oriented instructions to hone results. In the specific examples we cover, create questions that highlight your qualifications, experience, or anything else.

Craft engaging social media posts and persuasive digital marketing copy using ChatGPT's capabilities as an SEO expert and copywriter. Learn to discover and integrate potential keywords, and adapt your writing style for different platforms and target audiences. This is truly powerful and the possibilities are endless.

Let ChatGPT help you plan your meetings. Essentially, it’s like hiring a personal assistant who can help get things done, leaving you more time to focus on gazing wistfully out the window and thinking profound thoughts. In this lesson, we will work on building an agenda by defining objectives, defining topics to be discussed, and how much time each topic needs. At the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to gaze out of the window and ponder all the other ways you might use ChatGPT as a personal assistant.

Use ChatGPT to make your stories come to life. Create characters and worlds and make them interactive… this can be a great way to make custom adventure games for your kids and other role-playing situations. But with this interactive approach, imagine writing scripts, blog content, RPG campaigns, dialogue for stories…the possibilities are literally endless. Let’s get creative!

Transform your notes into professional business reports using ChatGPT's formatting expertise. Utilize the ‘Outlines and Knobs’ approach to refine your content as needed. This is a highly scalable approach to creating polished final content.

Generate structured performance reviews with the "Star Trek Computer" approach and learn the key to overcoming those repetitive tasks that would be much easier to talk through (we will be using speech-to-text). In this lesson, we will go over how to do tasks within tasks, ensuring that ChatGPT doesn’t get confused. Adapt this method for various tasks requiring unique content that follow a particular order. Better yet, make it a conversation.

Efficiently generate YouTube descriptions and titles in bulk with ChatGPT as a ‘copy generating machine’. That sounds very rigid, but if done correctly, it isn’t. Whether you’re creating YouTube descriptions (the example we cover in this lesson), marketing copy, or a bunch of similar social media posts, a flexible template can be achieved with the right instructions and steps. Ensure consistency and relevance across your content. This is the tip of the iceberg and perhaps the biggest time saver we will look at in the entire course.

Think of ChatGPT as your multipurpose tool for turning transcripts into fresh content for any need. It's not just about reusing content; it's about exploring new ways to present information. With ChatGPT, you can take any transcript and reshape it for a completely different purpose - a blog post, an article, or even a script. Thinking about all the applications of this makes my head spin.

Unleash ChatGPT's potential for customer service interactions by providing responses with full context. Enhance customer support with personalized and informed responses at scale. But more broadly, start thinking of background/context prompts as a powerful way to get highly-relevant results that don’t require constant tweaking. It’s a great way to ensure comprehensive and contextual interactions. Again, what we’re creating is a knowledgeable agent who knows what you want them to know.

In this lesson, learn to integrate ChatGPT with Zapier (using an OpenAI API Key) to automate all kinds of writing tasks. We will go over the example of auto-responding to messages using a very simple workflow, but that’s really just the beginning. Combining automation with the approaches we’ve covered in the course gives you superpowers. You can generate detailed, organized notes based on a stream-of-consciousness voice recording you made on a walk, create time-based triggers to engage communities, generate email drafts to colleagues, and review them when you have time…it’s amazing!

A well-organized prompt library can be a game-changer in your writing workflow. With ChatGPT, you can create and structure such a library, using platforms like Notion for easy access. This way, you have a treasure trove of prompts at your fingertips, ready to be incorporated into your writing processes. If you put in the work to build specific prompt flows that work for you, everything you need to do will get much easier.

Dive deep into the fascinating dynamics between us humans and our AI language model counterparts. It's a dance of adaptability and the artful curation of content in this new AI-driven era. We will delve into mindset shifts that can help you tap into the full potential of AI language models, allowing you to evolve with the times.

Get ready to supercharge your brainstorming sessions with ChatGPT! There is a childlike eagerness to work through even your dumbest inspirations, and that can be really useful. Working with ChatGPT is like having an idea factory on your phone or computer, ready at the push of a button. But it’s more than just simple idea generation. Productive ideation also comes down to those ideas, how to shape them, and how they then fit into the more involved approaches we’ve covered in this course. Let's turbocharge your creative process and get the brain juices flowing.

Picture having a business partner or co-founder ready at a moment's notice to help you cultivate your ideas (or criticize them). In this lesson, we'll explore how to do just that by summoning a thoughtful interlocutor using ChatGPT. This isn't just a one-way conversation; expect to challenge positions, spot potential issues, and foster creative problem-solving. Also, spoiler alert, my Co-founder GPT has made me realize I’m not ready to start a food truck.

Transform ChatGPT into your own personal Grammarly, including basic revisions and suggestions for your writing, as well as grammar and spelling corrections. This lesson is a straightforward warm-up for more involved methods.

Let's step up your writing game with ChatGPT as your professional proofreader. From fixing grammar errors to polishing sentence structure and improving voice, we’ll look at how to iterate and polish writing. Plus, we'll walk through how to get a breakdown of changes to understand what exactly has been modified. This can ensure the final result fully aligns with your goals.

In this lesson, you'll learn how to take a poorly-worded proposal and polish it into a professionally-crafted version. From garbage to gold. You'll follow a simple two-step process that covers corrections and high-level feedback, ensuring the final result achieves your initial goals.

In this lesson, learn to improve writing skills and receive feedback using specific methodologies or frameworks. We’ll look at an example of checking writing against guidelines from "The Elements of Style,” including a score breakdown. The applications of this approach extend far beyond writing feedback.

In this final lesson, let's recap what we've learned working with ChatGPT throughout the course, and talk about what's next as you continue your journey as a full-on prompt engineer.