1.5 – Creative Drafting With AI Brainstorming, Blogs, Social Media, Story, and more Lesson

Lesson Overview

This lesson explores the practical steps and options for using Notion AI to support creative content creation. Notion’s built-in AI offers a suite of prompt-driven features that make working through creative blocks faster and easier. Whether you want to brainstorm story ideas, write fiction or poetry, or build out blog and social media content, Notion’s drafting tools can help you turn a prompt into a usable draft within seconds.

You’ll see how to begin with simple idea-generation, develop a story or blog post from a single concept, and then iterate that idea into additional formats—like poems or social media snippets. Notion AI’s “Draft with AI” section centralizes content types for writers, marketers, and anyone seeking creative material.

This lesson is beneficial for anyone looking to jumpstart a creative project or supplement existing content with new formats. It brings all the creative drafting steps together, so you can generate, refine, and organize multiple content types with ease. In real-world settings, you might use these workflows to overcome writer’s block, generate marketing materials quickly, or find inspiration for new projects—right inside Notion.

Who This Is For

If you need a practical way to create and expand creative content in Notion, this lesson is designed for you.

• Content creators looking to brainstorm and draft written material
• Educators building engaging stories or educational posts
• Marketers needing quick blog drafts and promotional social media ideas
• Solo entrepreneurs updating their brand’s content across platforms
• Writers seeking to overcome blocks and find fresh inspiration
• Anyone interested in exploring the creative uses of Notion AI

Where This Fits in a Workflow

This lesson is a foundational part of any content-creation workflow in Notion that begins with a need for original ideas and leads to completed assets. You’ll start at the idea stage, use AI to develop drafts, and then spin off additional material from what you’ve created.

For example, a writer brainstorming story ideas can use AI to generate several prompts, write a story or poem from the favorite prompt, and save different versions in organized pages. Likewise, a marketing manager may generate a blog post about a tourist city, then efficiently create social media posts to promote each key topic in the blog. Each step ensures content is linked, organized, and ready for further editing or publication.

Technical & Workflow Benefits

Old methods of creative drafting involved staring at blank pages or relying on separate tools for brainstorming, drafting, and promotion. With Notion AI, the process is streamlined: you can prompt, generate, and refactor material all within a single workspace. This reduces repetitive copy-pasting between apps and cuts down on time spent switching contexts or getting stuck due to lack of inspiration.

For instance, transforming a blog post into several targeted social media messages is now a matter of seconds, not hours. If you’re working in a team, drafts can be shared, revised, or built upon collaboratively without ever leaving your Notion workspace. This saves time, increases output, and keeps all content versions and ideas in one organized location, improving both collaboration and version tracking.

Practice Exercise

Try creating a batch of related creative content in Notion:

1. Start a new page labelled “Creative Drafting Practice.”
2. Use the AI’s “brainstorm ideas” feature and prompt it, for example, with “adventure stories for kids.” Pick a favorite idea.
3. Next, draft a creative story or a poem based on that idea using the AI.
4. After drafting, create a sample blog post about a topic of your choice. Then, select one key point from the blog and turn it into a social media post using the AI tools.

Compare how quickly you generated diverse pieces and reflect: Which version required the most manual editing? How did AI help shape or inspire your original direction?

Course Context Recap

This lesson is part of your introduction to creative content workflows in Notion AI. Previously, we covered how to navigate Notion’s AI starter prompts and basic content development. Here, you explored using AI to generate and connect creative drafts across stories, poems, blogs, and social content. Up next, you’ll see how Notion AI supports more professional and business-focused writing. Continue through the course to unlock even more practical ways to use AI for everyday content needs.