[NarratorTD]

Fair point on the skimming. I definitely let the scenic route take over in this one; Ironically, getting lost in the weeds is how I found the voice!

I love the idea of using it for structure only. My fear was that if AI touches the structure, it inevitably sanitizes the voice too. But there's probably context I can provide to avoid that.

[ofalkaed]

Give the AI the topic you want to write about and a few of the supporting ideas you want to touch on, ask it to elaborate on them, bounce back and fourth with it and question all of its suggestions, directly ask it about them. Take what you like. Repeat a few times until you are happy with the result. ChatGPT seems better at this sort of thing than Claude in my experience, it is better at picking up on your style of developing an idea and working within it as long as you remember to question it when it moves away from it and remind it of your way of thinking about things.

10 or 15 minutes should allow you to have a basic outline you can ask it to flesh out into a more complete outline and you can do things like tell it to emphasize a point and build the outline around that point or even tell it to reach that point in a roundabout fashion which only emphasis it at the end or anything else which suits your way of developing an idea. After that you just need to write it and if you do things right that will be easy.

AI is a great tool for this stuff and the big models are smart enough to learn your style and intents, becoming more mentor than shortcut, but like a mentor you need to put ins some time with them so they can figure you out and you can figure them out.