Recently, I received a strange text from a new acquaintance. “You have your own biography???” it read. [...] This was news to me. I went to Amazon to investigate. There it was. A biography of Kashmir Hill [...] My life story had a mottled brown cover and a publisher I’d never heard of before. It had no reviews until I wrote one, asking, as the subject of this work, if I could please speak to the author.
“Almost everyone I know says they want to write a book,” he said. “It’s a very romantic concept to sit down and toil, page after page and paragraph after paragraph, but it doesn’t make economic sense.”
It is hard to disagree with that, though I can’t say I agree with Mr. Johns’s solution: Have an A.I. chatbot do it instead.
I just remembered that in 2021 I met a technical writer who was planning to change careers by writing romance novels. Not because it was her dream, but because, as we would say now, it was easier...
I just remembered that in 2021 I met a technical writer who was planning to change careers by writing romance novels. Not because it was her dream, but because, as we would say now, it was easier to write formulaic slop. I wonder if she was successful, and if she’s using AI now to streamline the process.
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I just remembered that in 2021 I met a technical writer who was planning to change careers by writing romance novels. Not because it was her dream, but because, as we would say now, it was easier to write formulaic slop. I wonder if she was successful, and if she’s using AI now to streamline the process.
It's always sad when a technical writer is forced to write something soulless and formulaic.