Eventually you'll stop counting the words. You'll stop worrying about what others think. You'll stop wondering if you're "a writer" yet.

You'll just write.

Get feedback, if it helps you. If not: fuck em. You're the one writing.

Write your first 2000 word post. Then your first 5000 word post. Write two posts in a week. Write every day.

Find something that inspires you. Something you have Opinions™ about. Read, if you can. It helps. But don't forget to write.

Maybe consider editing your posts. Or don't. Just keep writing. Keep hitting the publish button. Get to 1000 words a week.

Write. Just write. Then hit publish. Even if it's bad. Even if all you can do is 100 words. Start there.

Then do it again, the next week. Add 5 words the week after that. Get to 500 words a week. Make them 1% better. Then 1% better the week after that.

• If you’re using documents or pasting large blocks of text, ask ChatGPT to cite specific quotes to justify its answers.
• And because it’s always worth repeating: ChatGPT will lie to you. Don’t ever blindly trust its output.

Give them a try, or share your best ChatGPT tips!

• If you don’t have a good idea of how to prompt the AI, turn things around - have ChatGPT ask you relevant questions before answering.
• Don’t be afraid to re-roll responses or go back and edit your message history. Branching conversations are an underused tool.

• Making connections with other brilliant content creators
• Exploring new models, mediums, and messages
• Consistently getting better at my craft

Everyone chases the first list. It’s much more enjoyable chasing the second.

There's definitely still a risk of hallucinations, but Structured Outputs solves so many headaches when getting ChatGPT to generate JSON data.

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Instead, try Structured Outputs:
- Define the exact schema you want
- Get guaranteed structure every time
- Force specific field names
- Validate data types automatically

You don't have to:

- Beg the AI to "PLEASE RETURN VALID JSON"
- Use brittle regexes to parse unstructured text
- Add custom delimiters and pray for the best
- Create complex multi-step prompts