I know the popular fantasy is that writers who use AI are not “real writers” because they don’t do any “actual work” themselves. This is just so big & wrong of an idea that it is difficult to refute head-on. In fact, I don’t expect any of the people who think that to ever change their minds because of anything I say. So this isn’t for them; it’s for me.

Anyway, it’ll have to suffice to say that, again, my experience has been exactly the opposite of what everyone says about writing with AI. Apart from accelerating my output, the sheer act of producing, checking, and editing such a large quantity of text makes you – wait for it – exponentially better as a writer. It trains you to think in not just words & sentences, but in movable blocks of ideas that can be shifted around, re-purposed, etc. etc. I’m at the point of like, who cares where the actual words come from, so long as they get my text where I want it to go?

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