AI Can't Make Me a Better Writer!

It's a good tool in the right hands, but not the Holly Graal of writing.

Teodora Pirciu
4 min readJun 8, 2023
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ChatGPT and its many cousins help me speed up the writing process and give me a couple of quick wins, but they're not making me a better writer.

It's time to stop pretending.

AI tools don't fix writer's block

"It's good because it gives you something to work from immediately instead of staring at a blank page."

No, it's not!

Just because someone gives you a fish doesn't mean it teaches you to fish. It's quite the opposite.

If you're given a fish every day, you'll never learn how to fish.

Make ChatCPT a central piece of your writing routine, and you'll never get better at this!

You'll have writer's block tomorrow and every day after that. Until you sit down at your desk one day and realize that you can no longer create something from scratch because you're not used to it anymore.

Sure, you can use excuses around time-saving or productivity. But we all know the truth.

Use ChatGPT, but don't lie to yourself.

What makes me a better writer?

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Teodora Pirciu

Writer, mother, journalist, content marketer, day-dreamer, chocolate lover, freelancer. Not necessarily in this order.