The Starting is the Hardest Part: Using ChatGPT to Overcome Writer’s Block

We all know that editing a draft, even a bad draft, is easier than starting from scratch with a blank page. Even if ChatGPT produces something you hate, the draft produced by the software can “unstick” us and our students and jump start a surge of productive work. With editing this eventually leads us to good work product, and that work product will likely be better because we started earlier and went through a more thoughtful process. The presentation would also include ways in which ChatGPT can help LRW professors with some of the parts of the job that we tend to procrastinate on, such as writing reports, recommendation letters, and other forms of faculty service.