Literary Auto-tune
I have found that the mass produced literature today mimics the auto tune environment in music. I think that AI is going to exacerbate the situation.
I have written and edited my own novel and I have made explicit decisions in the way I approached my writing.
I have other things I find myself leaning into as time goes along, but these are my main items.
- Chehkov is ONLY for short stories, for anything longer than a novella or novelette, Chehkov’s gun has diminishing returns.
- The way adverbs are being treated as unnuanced fillers is a disservice to adverbs, there is a reason why adverbs were developed and stuck around. They give nuance where another word does not.
“I took off at in a headlong barreling barely controlled sprint, ending in finishing first as my backside cleared the tape just millimeters ahead of the second place as I tumbled to first place.” - Pacing is intentional… and should mirror something, in my case it mirrors my mundane human to cosmic myth journey, gaining speed as the mythology deepens.
- AI does not understand how to make a nuanced complex narrative. AI has trouble putting complexity in more than a couple of sentences.
I have other things I find myself leaning into as time goes along, but these are my main items.