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Creative Writing with an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers
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What I really think good writing does: It enlivens that part of us that actually believes we are in this world, right now, and that being here somehow matters.
-George Saunders
I think this is the way we’ll use AI to write in the future. We’ll interact with AI in a continuous, back-and-forth way. We’ll write a few sentences, and then we’ll ask it for suggestions. We’ll write a few more sentences, and then we’ll ask it again. We’ll keep going back and forth like this, and over time the AI will get better as it learns more... See more
Every • Writing with Machines
Because right now there is someone
Out there with
a wound in the exact shape
of your words.
Out there with
a wound in the exact shape
of your words.
Sean Thomas Dougherty • “Why Bother” by Sean Thomas Dougherty
why bother to write?
Think writing is hard? Bill Hader agrees! In this video he discusses writing with a partner, figuring out bad ideas, and sifting through feedback.
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instagram.comthis hits hard: People will be right about what’s wrong, but wrong about how to fix it
A Blog Post Is a Very Long and Complex Search Query to Find Fascinating People and Make Them Route Interesting Stuff to Your Inbox
Henrik Karlssonescapingflatland.substack.com
an interview about instant messenger that takes place on instant messenger. the lesson is simple: writing is hard because it forces us to improve our thinking.
Putting aside the need to earn a living, I think there are four great motives for writing, at any rate for writing prose. They exist in different degrees in every writer, and in any one writer the proportions will vary from time to time, according to the atmosphere in which he is living. They are:
(i) Sheer egoism. Desire to seem clever, to be... See more
(i) Sheer egoism. Desire to seem clever, to be... See more
Animal Farm • Why I Write | the Orwell Foundation
i can’t believe this is the first time i read this.