How AI Cured My Writing Procrastination

A Procrastinator’s Excuse

I haven’t written a blog post in years.

Not because I had nothing to say — I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. Writing used to take me at least a week per article: brainstorming, drafting, revising over and over, then hunting for images, drawing flowcharts in draw.io, dragging and dropping for half an hour just to get a box on screen. The whole process was slow and exhausting, and I gradually built up a real resistance to it. Every time I opened my editor, the first thought that crossed my mind wasn’t “what should I write?” — it was “forget it, maybe another day.”

And another day turned into several years.

It was only recently that I realized what had stopped me was never a lack of things to write about. It was that writing itself had become too heavy.

Now AI has taken away a large part of that weight.

The Pain Points

Turning ideas into coherent prose is hard: I just need to articulate my thoughts, even roughly, and AI can organize them into flowing paragraphs. I control the direction and the perspective; it polishes the language. This division of labor suits me much better.

Finding images is time-consuming, and they’re often the wrong format or size: Now I describe what I want and AI generates it — style, composition, everything — in seconds.

Drawing flowcharts is slow: I describe the logic to AI and it generates the diagram directly. I just check if it’s right and adjust if needed.

My Setup

I’ve built myself a small writing pipeline, centered around two AI roles.

The first is the writer. I throw my ideas, thoughts, and core points at it, and it turns those fragments into a complete first draft.

Once the draft is ready, I edit it myself. This step is crucial — don’t underestimate your readers. The best articles are as short as possible, and most people these days (myself included) don’t have the patience for a long read. Later is never.

After editing, I hand it to the second AI role — the editor. It reviews the article and does another round of polishing. Honestly, I’m not sure yet whether I need the editor role. I’ll try it this way and see.

I’m not sure how many more articles I’ll write after this. But at least today, I opened my editor — and finished this one.