AI for Writers: The 24/7 Writing Coach to Help You Finish What You Start
A free live workshop on how to use Claude or ChatGPT as a sounding board, thinking partner and personal trainer for writing — taught by OpenAI’s former Head of Writing Community.
Every writer has a project they’re dying to finish. The novel languishing in your desk drawer. The book proposal you keep meaning to write. The story you want to tell, the screenplay you want to sell, the article or essay you can’t seem to start… or finish.
You know what you want to say. You may even have it mapped out in your head. All you need to do is actually write it.
The sad reality is that most writers die with their stories still in them. Not for lack of talent, but because they never finish what they start. You set the project aside fully intending to come back to it. Then life happens.
Here’s the thing: You don’t have to do it alone.
I’ve taught writing at Yale University and written features for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Psychology Today. I was OpenAI’s first Head of Writer Community, educating writers on how to use ChatGPT to supercharge their creative process. Never by letting the AI do their writing for them, but by using it as a sounding board, editor, and thinking partner to provide instant feedback, help them get unstuck and push through resistance, and keep them accountable so they can get it done and published.
What I’ll teach you is not a replacement for your human writing coach or teacher, but a reinforcement that’s available 24/7.
At OpenAI, I developed an approach I call Socratic AI — a radically different methodology that turns AI into an iterative thinking partner instead of a ghostwriter. Rather than generate prose, the AI helps you set and achieve goals, talk out ideas, and keep you moving forward until your project is done. It’s like having a personal trainer for your creative process.
Think about this: Even the schlubbiest movie stars go through mind-bending body transformations. Why? Because the studio hires a personal trainer to develop a tailor-made program, hold them accountable, and support them along their journey.
Socratic AI is a personal trainer for writing. You have the ideas, the stories, the voice — you just need to be shepherded through the process. To talk things out when you get stuck. To make a plan and be held to it. To say, “OK, today you’re drafting the first three sections of chapter 3 today, doesn’t matter how rough, just get it down.”
In this free live workshop, on April 22, 1-2pm ET, I’ll walk you through live demos on how to use AI to help you plan and set goals, and make you stick to the plan you set and keep you on track till it’s done. You’ll get specific prompts and techniques you can use to get started right away — all without ever outsourcing the writing, thinking, or creativity that makes your work unmistakably yours.
What you’ll learn:
The real reason most writers never finish their projects (hint: it’s not lack of talent or time)
Why “write this for me” is the single worst prompt you can use — and what prompt to use instead
Three high-leverage techniques you can use immediately to get dramatically better results from ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini
How to flip the script and have AI ask YOU questions to draw out your own best ideas, memories, and stories
How to get AI to break down your overwhelming project into simple daily milestones you can actually achieve
Live demos of how to talk through creative blocks, get instant feedback on your writing, and keep momentum going
Who this is for:
Writers skeptical of AI but curious if there’s a way to use it without outsourcing their creativity
Writers who’ve tried generating prose and been underwhelmed by AI’s generic, soulless output
Anyone who’s ever gotten stuck, set something aside temporarily, and never picked it back up
Writers with unfinished projects gathering dust — novels, proposals, essays, screenplays
Writers ready to stop being someone with unfinished projects and become someone who actually finishes what they start
About Jay Dixit:
Jay Dixit is the founder of Socratic AI, a former Yale writing instructor, and OpenAI’s first head of the Writer Community. He’s written for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Psychology Today, and has taught AI techniques to writers and writing students at Harvard, Columbia, and universities nationwide. His PopTech session on AI, “Tools for Thinking,” sold out immediately, and the editor of Reason Magazine called it “by far the best presentation I’ve seen on how to actually use this stuff.”
Format: Free live Zoom workshop, 60 minutes including Q&A
Cost: Free
When: Wednesday, April 22, 1-2p ET; recording shared shortly after
Want to dive deeper and put these methods to work in real time? Join the waitlist now for my 5-week masterclass, The Socratic AI Intensive: Your Personal Trainer for Writing, beginning May 18. With hands-on expert guidance, real-time feedback on your actual project, and daily accountability to keep you on track, you’ll learn to leverage AI as your 24/7 writing coach, accountability partner, and daily action guide. In five weeks, you’ll finally finish your essay, article, proposal, manuscript, screenplay or other important writing project — without ever letting AI write a single word. Join our waitlist below to learn more and get first access to the masterclass once registration opens.