Thrilled that I was able to attend Part 4 of Denis Hirson's inspirational online talks (arranged by Jacana) about writing a memoir. What stood out for me, particularly, and all of it was amazing, was the injunction to listen to yourself and to write from the heart, because nobody else in the world has your voice. To my mind, this is sound advice for all creative writing. But what about AI? Will it learn and mimic all our voices? It is already churning out books in different genres. We don't know the future effects of AI on creative writing but for now I will hold fast to the belief that tapping into our essence, writing from the heart and the gut, is what makes our voice real and unique. It will be my guiding light as I get back into the stream of new writing.

Perhaps the future of writing is an irony worthy of Samuel Beckett — the writer disappears just when the entire stage begins speaking in his language. Today, AI can write emails, blogs, documentation, summaries, scripts, proposals, and even poetry in seconds. And because of that, many believe writing itself is becoming less valuable. Yet every AI-generated sentence stands on layers and layers of human-written content accumulated over decades: books, articles, technical manuals, stories, research papers, product guides, forums, conversations, reviews, screenplays, documentation, and millions of forgotten drafts written by people who were simply trying to explain something clearly. The theatre analogy feels impossible to ignore. The actors perform brilliantly. The audience applauds the performance. Technology modernizes the stage. The production becomes faster, sharper, more efficient. And somewhere along the way, the script becomes invisible. Not absent. Invisible. But perhaps invisibility is not disappearance. Perhaps it is what happens when something becomes so deeply woven into the system that everything else begins speaking through it. And maybe that is why, even in the age of AI, the world still quietly depends on people who know how to think, feel, observe, question, and give shape to meaning through words. #theatre #documentation #AI #writers #AIProduct

I love em-dashes. I believe they add depth to stories. They create more opportunities for varied sentence lengths—and interjecting thoughts. You don’t have to like them, but don’t take them away from authors. There’s plenty of evidence in many manuscripts that suggest the use of AI generation that doesn’t have anything to do with em-dashes. Stay tuned for a brief summary on hyphens, en-dashes, and em-dashes on Living Literature LLC’s page! #writing #editing #copyediting #noai #freelanceeditor

If you are a writer who wants to improve a manuscript, but finds crit groups devastating, this technique I just learned about might be a good fit:

I'd like to propose a new word, bloviAItion, to describe overly verbose AI-generated writing. I realize the capital "AI" in the middle is a challenge to newspaper editors, spell-checkers, the Scripps National Spelling Bee, and LLMs. And the necessary pronounciation, blo-vee-AYE-shun, sounds a bit Aussie to American ears. But I think the time for this word has arrived! Are you with me?

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Ryan Leack, a writing professor, wrote an essay in the Brooklyn Eagle about AI and writing that reaches back 4,000 years to Enheduanna, one of the first documented poets in human history. His argument, distilled: writing is a living medium. It interacts with the present and changes the future. And what makes it alive is the writer — a three-dimensional, emotional, experience-carrying human being. Yes, AI can generate text. What it cannot do is generate consequences. It cannot write from grief, from wonder, from the specific texture of a Tuesday event that changed someone's mind. It's a distinction that matters enormously as writers watch the current content landscape fill with machine-produced babble and wonder if there's still room for them. I'm here to tell you that there is, and there always will be. Your stories will move people and change the way they think. They will make someone see their own life differently, simply because they come from lived experience intentionally rendered. That's not a feature AI can replicate.  So, if you're a writer doubting whether what you have to say is worth saying. Stop doubting, and start writing. Enheduanna's words survived four millennia. Yours deserve a chance to find their audience, too. --- I've spent my career collecting stories and finding the humans inside them. With execs, I help build the narrative. With writers, I help find it. I'm here if you need either.

If people spent half as much time on their writing briefs as they do trying to 'catch' writers using AI to write, every writer-for-hire on the planet would throw a party to celebrate. #RedDoorInk #writing #AI

If our most prestigious literary juries can no longer tell the difference between the genuine creative struggle of a human writer and a machine that has simply learned to mimic our communication and writing styles, then that sure raises big questions. Whether the Commonwealth Foundation strips these titles once their investigations are concluded is anybody's guess at the moment. But one thing is certain: the boundary between human soul and machine code in creative writing is slowly and officially evaporating. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐀𝐈-𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞.