How do I use AI to write a blog post?

Feed it your angle, target keyword and reader, ask for an outline first, then get it to write each section — never a full post in one prompt.

Mark Barclay
Answer curated and reviewed byMark Barclay

Key takeaways

  • Feed it your angle, target keyword and reader, ask for an outline first, then get it to write each section.
  • never a full post in one prompt.

The trick is treating AI as a junior writer, not a magic button. A workflow that produces posts you would actually publish:

  1. Give the model a one-line angle, your target reader, and one target keyword.
  2. Ask for an outline of 6–8 H2s. Rewrite it yourself.
  3. Feed the corrected outline back and ask it to write section by section.
  4. Rewrite the intro and the conclusion by hand — they set the voice.