In the digital age sweeping across the globe, artificial intelligence (AI) has permeated every aspect of our lives.
Among these, AI writing has emerged as a major innovation in the field of content creation, characterized by its efficiency and accuracy.
As a content creator, I understand the challenges and difficulties of content creation. Therefore, when I came across Mr. Hong Dan’s “AI Writing Compendium,” I felt like I had discovered a treasure trove.
Written by Mr. Hong Dan, the “AI Writing Compendium” not only systematically introduces the methods and advantages of AI writing but also teaches us how to quickly produce a good article using numerous examples.
The author, Mr. Hong Dan, is a three-time influential writer on Dangdang.com. Her representative works include “Monetizing Reading,” “Advancing Writing,” and “Starting from Scratch to Learn Writing.”
The “AI Writing Compendium,” born out of the times, can be said to be her masterpiece and a quick guide to help us write good articles.
AI writing not only allows us to quickly improve our knowledge base and writing experience, enhance writing inspiration, but more importantly, it can also quickly help us check grammar errors, optimize sentence structures, and make articles more perfect, thus making writing more efficient.
Now, let’s discuss how to use it for efficient creation.
Advantages of AI Creation
Before we utilize AI for creation, we need to understand its advantages in creation and why we must constantly use it in future writing.
- AI can quickly generate articles.
This is the most obvious advantage of AI.
With the continuous development and popularization of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, its application in the field of writing is becoming increasingly widespread.
In terms of writing, AI is gradually changing our traditional writing methods. Especially in the rapid generation of articles, it has demonstrated unprecedented capabilities.
AI is like a typewriter. It can complete a thousand-word article in just a few minutes or even less time, which we may not be able to accomplish in several hours.
- AI assists us in content conceptualization.
In the intelligent era, AI can be described as our powerful assistant in writing.
Before writing an article, our traditional writing usually requires a lot of time for conceptualization, determining the theme, framework, and key points of the article.
AI can quickly extract key information related to the theme by analyzing massive data, providing us with a detailed content outline.
- AI saves writing time.
In the writing process, whether it’s collecting materials, organizing ideas, or actually writing and editing, AI can accomplish them at a much faster speed than our traditional methods.
For example, if I were to write an article about “healthy eating” on Xiaohongshu (Little Red Book), AI could quickly analyze a large amount of literature and integrate key information into a well-structured, content-rich article in a short period.
This efficient information processing capability is unmatched by traditional authors.
- Using AI can enhance creative inspiration.
Creativity is the soul of an article, but inspiration is often elusive.
A pain point for traditional writers is the lack of inspiration. Without inspiration, we cannot start writing.
AI can analyze a large amount of text data and discover potential creative points from it.
For example, when I encounter writer’s block, I would try to use AI-generated creative ideas to inspire my thinking.
These inspirations could be a novel viewpoint, an interesting story, or a clever metaphor. They can stimulate my writing enthusiasm, help me break through ideological barriers, and write more creative articles.
How to Use AI for Efficient Writing
In our traditional writing, we usually follow six steps: topic selection, intention setting, collecting and selecting materials, organizing structure, forming a first draft, and revising and polishing.
However, in these six steps, we not only spend time and effort but sometimes even if we have a topic, we still don’t know where to start.
Using AI, only four steps are needed to complete the writing. So what are these four steps?
- Clarify the purpose of writing.
When we use AI for writing, we need to first clarify what we are writing and what genre of article we are writing.
After all, AI is an auxiliary tool. It needs your instructions to produce articles that meet your expectations.
At the same time, clarify the publishing platform because each platform has different styles and requirements.
For example, if you want to write a note imitating the popular style of Xiaohongshu, then AI will complete the related article according to our instructions.
- Write precise prompts.
When we use AI for writing, the guidance of precise prompts is the key to AI generating articles.
And precise prompts are also the key to AI generating articles that meet your requirements.
Prompts can usually be a few sentences or paragraphs, or they can follow the prompt word template given by the author in the “AI Writing Compendium.”
The prompt word template depends on the subject matter: common templates include novel writing, new media creation, circle of friends creation, Xiaohongshu popular title templates, etc.
The core method of prompt words is based on the author’s RRBE model.
R (Role): What role AI plays
R (Request): Put forward specific and clear requirements
B (Background): Provide relevant background information and scenarios.
E (Expectation): Express expectations for results or effects.
For example: If I want to use AI to write a micro-novel.
Then the prompt word I give to AI for novel creation is:
• You are a novelist (Role), please write a micro-novel (specific requirement).
• Story plot: Tell a love story in Shanghai, where the male protagonist is a rich young master, and the female protagonist is a Qingping female college student. They fall in love at first sight but fail to end up together in the end.
• Please write a story with twists and turns, with some suspenseful love micro-novels based on this information. (Expectation of results)
Using the above prompt method, a good article will be quickly generated.
- Interactive writing
According to the prompt above, AI will quickly generate an article as you requested.
Of course, during the interactive writing process with AI, we can continuously adjust and supplement the prompts to help AI better understand your meaning and produce articles that meet your expectations.
- Revision and polishing
Language is the outer garment of an article, and beautiful language can enhance the attractiveness and appeal of an article.
This step is similar to traditional writing. After our traditional writing draft is formed, we also need to revise and polish it.
However, for most writers, language polishing, or editing a fluent article, is a time-consuming and laborious task.
Fortunately, AI has demonstrated strong capabilities in this regard. Through natural language processing technology, AI can automatically identify grammatical errors, redundant vocabulary, and other issues in the article, and provide corresponding revision suggestions.
For example, if I want to write an article about “workplace communication skills” for publication on a certain public account.
I can first use the AI writing assistant to enter the key prompt words, and then AI will quickly generate an article based on the author’s initial draft.
Then according to AI’s “article polishing” function, according to your requirements, it can intelligently review and adjust the content carefully, ensure clear logic, smooth language, and even correct mistakes.
It can also make the language of the article more appropriate to the theme, make the article closer to the voice of the reader, and enhance the reading experience.
In addition, based on the style and context of the article, AI can recommend more appropriate vocabulary and sentence structures, making our articles more fluent and vivid.
Conclusion: “AI Writing Compendium” is a writing compendium manual that every content creator should seriously study. Using AI writing not only enables us to quickly produce articles that are both fast and good but also brings us a new experience in content creation. In a sense, its appearance has subverted the traditional way of writing. It not only teaches us how to cleverly use AI to improve writing efficiency and quality but also importantly, it can enhance our writing inspiration and creativity.
I hope that in the wave of the intelligent era, we can make good use of AI to write more and better future chapters.