Using AI as Your Writing Coach

So, you want to write a book... or maybe a screenplay... or perhaps just an article, research paper, or short story, well, no matter what medium you’re writing in, there is an opportunity to improve your craft several orders of magnitude by letting artificial intelligence play the role of writing coach.

I’m not saying you use an AI tool as your ghostwriter, that would be plagiarism. Not to mention, AI writing from chatbots like ChatGPT or Deepseek leave a lot to be desired.

What I am saying, is that instead of your writing process consisting of heavy research, you should automate it. Instead of requiring feedback from readers that have no interest, automate it. Need help finding the right synonyms? Ask your new writing coach.

Table of Contents

• Creative Writing with an AI Coach

• Journalism with an AI Coach

• Copywriting with an AI Coach

• Conclusion

Creative Writing with an AI Coach

Creative writing begins with an idea and writers shouldn’t fear asking their AI writing coach what it thinks. If you want to hear different ways your story can be told, different ideas that can branch off from the roots you planted, all these suggestions are possible with AI. You don't need to rip these suggestions completely, just use them as a way to redirect your own thoughts.

Once you start writing, you can ask your writing coach about your flow and get personalized feedback. Your AI writing coach has knowledge of the world’s entire library of fiction, making it somewhat of an expert in plot, character development, and theme.

Creatives consider AI incapable of understanding the human condition. It’s job is not to dispense its own unique understanding though. It’s job is tell you what the whole of its training has taught it, and if that training includes the world’s greatest literature, I for one would want to hear what it has to say.

That shouldn’t undermine your own writing or creativity. If your idea is fresh and new, most likely AI will not be able to replicate it. Also, AI should be able to tell you if your idea is indeed fresh and new.

Journalism with an AI Coach

Reports need to be careful using AI for their research because AI is prone to generating AI hallucinations. However, it’s still a very useful tool to optimize your articles for SEO and usefulness from heading to body.

If you don’t trust the fact-checking capabilities of your AI system, you can still find plenty of features that can make your job easier. From finding the right citations, to automating their formatting, and more.

Generative AI seems to pose a greater threat to journalism than other mediums. Mostly because people want straight forward, unbiased news. This coupled with the proneness of AI to dispense misinformation makes writers a little wary of using an AI model to report the news.

Copywriting with an AI Coach

Copywriting requires understanding target audiences and personalizing your text for them. To discover who you're selling to, there’s no better market research innovation than AI.

With market and SEO research built into AI-generated content from many models, copywriting can take the form of editing and using AI templates or simply giving you the right keywords to use yourself.

Still, humans understand their own kind better than a machine, with more dynamic and random thoughts to craft good copy from.

Academic Writing with an AI Coach

AI systems can hinder learners from achieving their academic goals if all it does is cheat for them. There are many uses beyond ghostwriting for an AI-assisted academics though. When it comes to essay writing, a good AI will find the right citations and format them for you.

A good AI writing coach will tell you if your essay is persuasive or if you’ve chosen a thesis that can’t be argued. Also, often times students that are bad writers require seeing an example of good writing as a launch pad to improve. In this way, AI can make students better writers by generating essays they can then mimic.

In some cases, using AI in ways that don’t include ghostwriting are still considered breaches of academic integrity. Those regressive policies won’t last though, as AI tools proliferate through academia and creative fields, deeper acceptance is the only sure thing.

Conclusion

Regardless of how you want to express yourself with text, AI can help you be the best version of yourself to spill out on the page. Whether for creative, academic, or professional writing, AI is the writing coach tool more creators need to harness.

As prevalent as AI already is in content creation and social media, most people agree creative fields shouldn’t be flooded with AI content. Still, we need to strike the right balance. Authors will be so pleased to have a reader giving them feedback without having to hassle anyone.

Journalists, copywriters, and academics will love having their research automated once all the kinks are worked out.

In any case, authors that choose to work with an AI, will surely experience less writer’s block with a coach that pushes them to more high-quality work than ever before.