How to Use ChatGPT to Write Like the Pros

With prompts and a process to follow

Hello and welcome everyone,

So glad we can catch up again this week.

I’ve got some snacks for you today. But before that, let me ask you this…

Have you ever seen or liked a piece of writing?

I did when I was a beginner at writing. I would see some pieces and want to write the same way.

Sometimes, we wonder how powerful writing can be.

I mean, writing has become more than curating a few lines.

It’s true that writing is made up of words, but those who write better have more influence. And influence is power.

Leaders use words to persuade the public in elections.

Corporations use words in ads to persuade people like us to buy from them.

Show me one example where words are not used to create influence. It should be very rare.

Watch this video and you’ll see how powerful words can be.

Now think: not everyone can be a successful writer.

Imagine J.K. Rowling as the only top novelist.

Or thinking of writing exactly like Shakespeare? I don’t think it’s ever happened or will happen.

But it’s not impossible either.

Let me tell you one thing: few people become better at writing without learning from great writers.

Well, I spent a few hours trying to use ChatGPT to write exactly like my favorite writer—Sam Parr.

Again. I cannot become the next Sam nor do I want to, but I can use some methods to write exactly like he does.

Here’s how I made this possible:

1. I tried to analyze his writing style with ChatGPT.

I used the following prompt:

I want you to search the internet and find out what the tone and voice of Sam Parr is while writing.

It will provide a detailed description. Don’t mind it; we need it to train ChatGPT.

Here’s what I got:

Ok. It searched through the internet and brought up what it found.

Now, let’s ask it to write a piece of text.

For the sake of this email, I asked it to write a LinkedIn copy.

I wrote and used this prompt:

Now I want you to write a copy for LinkedIn in exactly his voice and tone of writing. The copy should be about “how to stay healthy as a 30 years old man”. Keep the sentences shorter and one-liner and add a double entered space between the sentences. Add a PS that asks an engaging question that can make the reader respond.

Here’s how it went:

Look at the writing style. The words. The tone and the language.

(I’ve attached this exact chat of mine with ChatGPT. Check it out here)

The reason the prompt didn’t need many tweaks is that it already knew how to write, what kind of language to use, what tone to use, and what style to use.

(Remember? We asked it to find out how Sam Parr writes)

If you consider this as a copy, it’s pretty much perfect.

This also works if you want to train ChatGPT on something you already wrote and then double down on it.

It’ll help you transform any input and write exactly like yourself.

I’ll be coming up with more about that in a future email.

But for now, try this and let me know how it helps you.

P.S. It’s always better to tweak whatever you generate with ChatGPT, despite it being so perfect. AI still hallucinates.

Have you ever tried to write like your favorite creator?

See you in the next email,

Sami Sharaf