I didn’t need a new workflow or caffeine — just one question that made ChatGPT think with me, not for me.
I used to spend entire evenings battling a blinking cursor.
I’d write, delete, rewrite—and still end up staring at a paragraph that felt stiff and over-edited.
Then one night, out of sheer frustration, I typed a sentence into ChatGPT that didn’t ask it to write for me—it asked it to think with me.
Two hours later, I’d finished an article that normally took a full day.
No caffeine overdose.
No miracle workflow.
Just one shockingly simple prompt that flipped a creative switch I didn’t know existed.
When Writing Becomes Work
For years, I thought my slow writing pace was a discipline problem.
Maybe I wasn’t focused enough, or maybe I needed another productivity app. But every “solution” just added more noise.
I’d brainstorm endlessly, outline half-heartedly, and polish sentences that never made it past draft three.
What I didn’t realize was that I wasn’t struggling with writing. I was struggling…
