TIME is our topic today.
AI offers a tantalizing offer of extra time. It runs the outline for us. It offers examples of a way to accomplish what we need. It saves us time. Efficiency is good, right?
If your goal is to create an interesting, entertaining, or informative manuscript for readers to appreciate, time is crucial. Each step of the writing process takes significant blocks of time. To reach the point where you are ready for an outside editor to independently review your work, you will have thought, imagined, created, researched, drafted, redrafted, reorganized, touched up, edited, read aloud, and reedited. Add in time for workshopping or sharing with your writers group. Consider this investment of time.The process is long and arduous and remarkably satisfying.
Our ability to accomplish all of these tasks is by our own design; we drive our mission, express our intention, and write with our unique creativity.
Tasks are a part of each of these steps and there are several tools that seem to help writers without writing your words for you. Claude ai has been mentioned more than a few times, including by a college instructor. My own experience with Grammarly has ended up in re-editing and relying instead on my editing skills and ample resources. Periodically, I will review rules, compare examples, and find research snippets to cross reference my writing. HOWEVER: CAVEAT EMPTOR! Let the Buyer Beware! These all have inconsistencies, omissions, and rely on what has been added in, rather than your own critical reasoning.
Asking any of these programs to rewrite your work and then sliding it into your draft is not a time saving maneuver. You will still have to adjust the sentence or passage again to “sound like you”. Further, you risk spilling your original work into the ocean, drowning the uniqueness of your voice, and in many cases, losing the flow of your intention as AI is computer generated content. AI can not replace the creativity and voice of human writers.
Use your time to write and create. I’ll keep an eye out for helpful tools.
Meanwhile, try your hardest not to obsess with Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia”…I’ve hard a hard time walking away from it. Didn’t have Hamlet, Pre-Raphaelites’ art work, themes running four basements deep, and dancing in front of my computer on my Bingo card this month.
