It's not that you're not good at it, there's just a lot of hidden functionality that isn't obvious, and it's a terrible UI for long-form writing of any sort due

It's not that you're not good at it, there's just a lot of hidden functionality that isn't obvious, and it's a terrible UI for long-form writing of any sort due to the context size limitations. If you tell it "write a story..." it will write in the style of a children's fairy tale (opening with "once upon a time" and everything). Telling it "write a professional fiction novel in the style of Tom Clancy..." would improve that. Had you told it to "write an academic paper about ___," you should not have received diplomatic PR speak. The lack of precision is addressed in a second pass. For each subsection, you tell it "isolate section ___ and expand it to include x, y and z." Now you have to start copying responses out of the chat window and into a different document, otherwise it'll turn demented and start changing earlier parts of the paper. This sort of workflow has not been worth it for me so far, but YMMV.