You nailed it! I absolutely loved this article. Someone once asked me how long I thought it would take them to write their first book. I told them it took me around 2 years to write my first one. They laughed and said that they could easily do it in less than half that time. That was over 2 years ago and they never finished chapter 1. Writing takes so much more work than people realize.
I've had writers and readers ask me basically the same thing: Do I, or would I, use AI to assist me in my writing?
My answer is usually something like, "I don't want to cheat my readers, or myself."
I don't write to market. I write stories I think people will enjoy reading.
And one of the secrets of writing, in my opinion is, writers don't just write because we have stories to tell: we also have stories we want to read. And no one but us is going to write those particular stories. 🙂
Yes. There are many good ways to use AI in your writing process, but they take time to get right. A lot of tweaking. A lot of re-doing. It’s a process in itself. Which is fine, as long as you know what you’re doing. But comparing a 2-week hit job to a years-long labor of love is insanity
You nailed it! I absolutely loved this article. Someone once asked me how long I thought it would take them to write their first book. I told them it took me around 2 years to write my first one. They laughed and said that they could easily do it in less than half that time. That was over 2 years ago and they never finished chapter 1. Writing takes so much more work than people realize.
Exactly because it’s never just vomiting words into the page. People can’t really understand unless they’ve done it
I've had writers and readers ask me basically the same thing: Do I, or would I, use AI to assist me in my writing?
My answer is usually something like, "I don't want to cheat my readers, or myself."
I don't write to market. I write stories I think people will enjoy reading.
And one of the secrets of writing, in my opinion is, writers don't just write because we have stories to tell: we also have stories we want to read. And no one but us is going to write those particular stories. 🙂
Yes. There are many good ways to use AI in your writing process, but they take time to get right. A lot of tweaking. A lot of re-doing. It’s a process in itself. Which is fine, as long as you know what you’re doing. But comparing a 2-week hit job to a years-long labor of love is insanity
The Central Limit Theorem is AI's creative kryptonite.
It can't create, though it can copy like the very dickens.
But, if it cant get grist for the mill from creative humans, it decays like a glass of milk left on the kitchen counter.
"A lot of tweaking. A lot of redoing. It's a process in itself."
Hmmm... Sounds a bit like... writing. 😆