Lately, I've been writing more on my blog, and it's been helpful to change the way that I do it.

Now, I take a cue from school, and write the outline first. With an outline, I can use a prompt for the LLM to play the role of a development editor to help me critique the throughline. This is helpful because I tend to meander, if I'm thinking at the level of words and sentences, rather than at the level of an outline.

Once I've edited the outline for a compelling throughline, I can then type out the full essay in my own voice. I've found it much easier to separate the process into these two stages.

Before outline critiquing: https://interjectedfuture.com/destroyed-at-the-boundary/

After outline critiquing: https://interjectedfuture.com/the-best-way-to-learn-might-be...

I'm still tweaking the developement editor. I find that it can be too much of a stickler on the form of the throughline.

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whshdjsk 10 days ago | parent [-]

And yet, Will, with all due respect, I can’t hear your voice in any of the 10 articles I skimmed. It’s the same rhetorical structure found in every other LLM blog.

I suppose if to make you feel like it’s better (even if it isn’t), and you enjoy it, go ahead. But know this: we can tell.

	▲	iamwil 10 days ago \| parent [-]
		The essays go back a couple years. How did I use LLMs to write in 2021 and 2022? If you're talking about something more recent, there's only two essays I wrote with the outlining and throughline method I described above. And all of essays, I wrote every word you read on the page with my fingers tapping on the keyboard. Hence, I'm not actually sure you can tell. I believe you think I'm just one-shotting these essays by rambling to an LLM. I can tell you for sure the results from doing that is pretty bad. All of them have the same rhetorical structure...probably because it's what I write like without an LLM, and it's what I prompted the LLM, playing a role as a development editor to critique outlines to do! So if you're saying that I'm a bad writer (fair), that's one thing! But I'm definitely writing these myself. shrug