Yes, I Use ChatGPT to Help Me Write Blog Articles—And Here’s Why
At the time of writing this, I have 4,164 notes in the Notes app on my phone.
That’s 4,164 thoughts, ideas, concepts, and unfinished sentences. Some of them are brilliant. Some of them are repetitive. Some are just fragments waiting to be pieced together into something cohesive.
My brain is constantly thinking—moving fast, sometimes faster than I can communicate. It’s why I practice yoga, meditation, and mindfulness. Learning to observe my thoughts without judgment and without chasing every single one has been a game-changer for me.
But when it comes to writing, I often face two challenges:
I think faster than I can write. Thoughts race through my mind, and by the time I try to capture them in words, they’ve already morphed into something else.
I don’t always have the language yet. Sometimes, I think in visuals or abstract concepts that I struggle to articulate in a way that makes sense to others.
This is where ChatGPT comes in.
How I Use ChatGPT
Many of my notes are bullet points, sometimes fragmented thoughts, or paragraphs upon paragraphs of thought. When I want to turn those into a blog post, I provide ChatGPT with what I have and then provide direction, such as “Using the content I am going to paste, please organize into a blog article.”
Some might argue that this means AI is doing the work for me, but I see it differently. The ideas, the thoughts, the original creation—that’s all me. ChatGPT is simply a tool that helps me structure and organize what’s already in my brain. It helps me bridge the gap between thought and articulation.
When I first used ChatGPT to write a blog article, I felt an incredible sense of relief and excitement. I finally had a tool that could help me get what is in my head out into the world.
Why should I feel ashamed of that?
The Ethics of Using AI
I live with ADHD, and while that absolutely impacts the way my brain works, I almost didn’t want to mention it in this post. Because, in my opinion, this isn’t about being neurodivergent or neurotypical. It’s about how we use the tools available to us.
Some people outline their ideas on paper. Some use voice-to-text. Some hire an editor or a ghostwriter. I use ChatGPT as an assistant, a collaborator that helps me refine, structure, and organize my thoughts.
At the end of the day, my words, my voice, and my ideas are still mine. ChatGPT helps me put them into a form that others can read, understand, and (hopefully) connect with.
So yes, I use ChatGPT to help me write blog articles. And I have no shame in that.
