LIVE: How Professional Writers Write with AI | Write-along
Katie Parrot and Jack Chang from Every walk through their step-by-step process for writing with AI, covering how to draft, outline, and edit while keeping a consistent voice.
The gist
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Break writing into phases like interview, outline, and draft rather than asking AI to produce a full piece in one go.
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Talk through ideas by voice before writing to surface structure and a clear thesis naturally before drafting begins.
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Create named reviewer personas with specific jobs, such as one for clarity and one for pacing, to catch structural problems at the outline stage.
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Treat your AI context like a bonsai tree: audit and cut conflicting rules regularly, and never edit it under deadline pressure.
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