You’re Burning Out Writing Blog Posts — This AI Workflow Publishes for You While You Sleep

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If you’re still manually brainstorming topics, writing blog drafts from scratch, formatting in WordPress, and hitting publish by hand. You’re not “committed.” You’re doing five jobs for the price of burnout. Meanwhile, some creators out there? They’re publishing daily. At scale. While sipping coffee or asleep.

How?

With a stack of ChatGPT, BuzzSumo, and Zapier that turns content creation into a background process. And it’s not hard. It’s just hidden from most people.

Step 1: Stop Writing, Start Engineering

Writing blogs the old way is like hand-chiseling bricks in the age of 3D printing.

Instead, smart creators are prompt-engineering templates into ChatGPT that churn out blog posts with structure, SEO, tone, and even brand voice — automatically.

Here’s a sample prompt they use (inside a Zapier automation):

Write a 1,200-word blog post on the topic: {Hot_Topic}. Use an engaging tone, include subheadings, and end with a CTA encouraging newsletter sign-ups. Optimize for the keyword: {Keyword}.

You feed the topic and keyword, and boom. AI does the heavy lifting. Don’t write. Build the recipe. Let AI cook.

Step 2: Let BuzzSumo Pick the Topics for You

This is the part that 90% of creators miss. They sit around trying to guess what to write about. Top sites? They plug into BuzzSumo, set it to track viral content in their niche, and pipe the top-performing titles into ChatGPT.

With just one Zap, you can do this:

• Scan trending blog posts on BuzzSumo for “personal finance.”
• Pull the top title daily.
• Extract the main keyword.
• Send both to ChatGPT with your blog template.

Suddenly, you’re riding the wave of what people already want.

Step 3: Zapier Ties It All Together

1. Trigger: Every day at 7 AM
2. Action: Search BuzzSumo for top-performing content in your niche.
3. Action: Extract blog topic + keyword
4. Action: Send to OpenAI (ChatGPT) with pre-built prompt
5. Action: Format the result into clean HTML.
6. Action: Auto-publish to WordPress as a draft or live post

Want to get fancy? You can even

• Auto-generate featured images with DALL·E
• Schedule posts via WordPress
• Push links to Twitter/LinkedIn via Buffer.

All while you’re still in bed.

Train ChatGPT with your voice.

Feed it 3–5 of your past blog posts and say, “Mimic this writing style for future posts.” Now your AI content sounds like you.

Add value with a custom intro/outro.

Even with automation, sprinkle in a human intro or commentary — it’s 2 minutes of effort that preserves authenticity.

Let drafts sit for review.

Don’t blindly auto-publish at first. Set it to create drafts in WordPress. Review. Tweak. Then trust.

Use categories/tags smartly.

Add Zapier filters to tag posts correctly based on keywords — keeps your SEO tidy and smart.

Why Most Creators Will Ignore This

It’s not about hustling harder. It’s about thinking like a systems builder, not a blogger.

But here’s the cold truth:

• Most people will keep writing manually.
• Obsess over perfection
• Burnout after 3 weeks of posting

Meanwhile, the ones who build systems? They post 365 days a year. Rank on Google. Get newsletter subscribers while eating cereal.