Melanie GormanFounder, Crownsville Media · SEO and website expert for mental health businesses

Don't let the fear of a blank page hold you back! 📝💥

2 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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In this short YouTube monologue, Melanie Gorman, head of Crownsville Media—a SEO and content creation firm serving therapists, healers, and other helping professionals—answers the common question of whether to use ChatGPT for content work. She endorses ChatGPT as a powerful brainstorming tool that can act like a writing partner, helping users overcome the paralysis of a blank page by generating ideas. However, she cautions that once the brainstorming phase is complete, creators should transfer those ideas into their own documents and write the final piece themselves, because allowing ChatGPT to produce the final copy erodes originality. The core message is to leverage AI for idea generation but to stop before the drafting stage to maintain authentic, original content.

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So how should you use ChatGPT? I'll tell you. I'm Melanie Gorman and I run Crownsville Media. It's an SEO company. We do content creation for therapists and helpers and healers. So lots and lots of people want to know, should I use ChatGPT? And the answer is yes for brainstorming. ChatGPT is a fantastic tool to help you access your creativity. And anyone that's ever sat down and stared at a blank page knows how hard it can be to figure out what to say, right? So if you put your ideas into ChatGPT and you use it as almost almost like a writing partner. What will happen is you will get ideas back. The trick is to then make them your own. So once you have your brainstorming done and you've collected the ideas and you feel stimulated and interested and you've found something to write about, pull that into your own Google Doc or Word doc and write your own article. Don't let ChatGPT write for you. It loses its originality when it happens that way. So trust me, you want to use it for brainstorming, but you want to also know when to stop.