Don't Fear AI Writing: Master These 7 Methods and You Can Write About Anything

Master 7 key writing methods to enhance your AI writing skills, improve creativity, and craft engaging, emotional content that resonates with readers.

Since last year, AI writing models have become popular. You can open any article and see content generated by AI.

Indeed, AI writing brings us a lot of convenience. Tasks that were once tedious and laborious, like organizing materials, have become easy. Based on the questions and prompts you input, AI can quickly provide a decent draft.

However, as things stand, AI writing still has some drawbacks and is not万能 (all-powerful). A very obvious phenomenon is that online AI-generated articles lack human emotion. They read like programmatic text created by machines—repetitive, verbose, and formulaic.

If you want to make breakthroughs in writing, relying solely on AI won't work. After all, if you're using it, so are others, so there’s no real advantage, especially when writing requires original insights.

Thus, you still need to learn practical writing skills and methods.

Here, I’ll introduce seven steps to help you transition from a writing novice to a writing pro.

Step 1: Warm-Up for Writing

First, understand what writing is, its purpose, the challenges it faces, and what writing can achieve.

Writing is a channel for expressing ideas and a method for exercising your thinking. It can be used for recording, making statements, expressing emotions, explaining, and in various scenarios, such as reports, plans, memos, and notices in the workplace.

Simply reading more books is not enough to write well; it’s just a way to accumulate material.

In addition to gathering materials, you need to master narrative techniques, the logic of writing, refine language, and apply writing templates to effectively solve the various problems encountered in writing.

For example, you can spend half an hour writing a continuous piece starting with "I remember."

When you hit a block, start from "I remember" again and continue, writing line by line, sentence by sentence.

Note that "I remember" doesn’t have to refer to a distant memory. Once you start writing, just follow the train of thought and jot down the images that pop into your mind. Write for ten minutes, then stop.

Take a break and move around, but don't talk. Then write for another ten minutes.

This time, begin with "I don’t remember" and keep writing. The benefit of this is that it allows you to access hidden places in your mind and reach blank, dark areas of your soul.

Treat this exercise as a warm-up to your writing. It will help your mind stretch in two directions—affirmation and negation, in the light and the dark, in the conscious and unconscious.

You’ll discover hidden writing power and train your thinking skills.

Step 2: Accumulate Material

The book suggests using the six senses—sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and intuition—to personally experience and accumulate material.

Using your nose and tongue to gather writing material may seem like sensing and tasting, but this process involves not just the nose and tongue, but the whole body, even emotions deep inside, triggered by food.

Let me highlight the interview method, which is widely applicable. Interviews with celebrities and public figures can uncover stories behind the news and restore the truth. Interviews with businesses can gather information about the company or product, accumulating material for company stories or product descriptions. Interviews with elderly family members can collect information about their life experiences, accumulating material for biographies or memoirs. Interviews with people involved in an event can gather material for stories, accumulating material for fictional creations such as novels.

In short, interviews are a direct, systematic, and fast way to obtain information and are a great method to ensure your writing is grounded in substance.