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Blog writing is way different now than it was 10 years ago

I used to spend an hour just thinking up a topic and then another two hours typing out 800 words by hand. Now I throw a few bullet points into an AI tool and get a full draft in 30 seconds. The change happened around late 2022 when those chatbots really got good. It saves me time but I still have to fix a lot of the tone myself. Anyone else feel like the editing part takes longer now than the writing used to?

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owens.nancy1mo ago

Editing used to be catching typos, now it's rewriting entire paragraphs to sound human again.

lucasking1mo ago

And thats exactly what I keep running into too. @owens.nancy hit it spot on - the editing phase now feels like I'm doing the real writing. I spend twenty minutes tweaking tone and fixing clunky phrases that sound like a robot vomited them out. Used to be I'd just run spellcheck and maybe swap a couple words, now I'm basically rewriting whole sections to get my actual voice back in there.