A blank text box is definitely my kryptonite. I’ve always liked the idea of writing for my blog but I’ve never really had the motivation to keep at it. After using Claude to rewrite my blog in Astro, I felt it was the right time to write a post and I had a recent experience to get down in writing.
I don’t want Claude to write a blog post for me, Claude already has a blog. Instead I asked Claude to review what I had written which was only a few paragraphs at this point. Claude gave me really good pointers on which areas to expand upon and how to finish with something for the reader to think about. It all made sense and it was very helpful in creating a more rounded and interesting blog post.
What surprised me was how different Claude was from Copilot which has a tendency to rewrite whatever you give it, even when you just ask for a review.
Hopefully with Claude as an editor I will be inclined to write a little more often than the ten year gap between my last two posts.