Richard Littler"I had sex with a piglet I stole. People *must* accept that this is the future of interpersonal relationships... Right?"
Petra van Cronenburg@Richard_Littler This opinion piece is good for a hot debate. But I find this question important for every #writer: "Once upon a time, mastery of the banal was adequate for writers. It was enough to prove that you were capable of writing. But that skill has no purpose any more – it can be automated. Skill will be found in the purpose of the work. What can you alone make happen with language?"
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Emma Cox@NatureMC @Richard_Littler I wonder if we'll see a shift in writing styles as writers innovate and create new styles which the plagiarising machines have yet to have been fed.
astroPug@Emmacox @NatureMC @Richard_Littler
Yes, and my guess is that process will happen even faster than before, and in many cases, without conscious effort.
If you see the same thing repeated often as a reader, you get tired of it much faster, so you will avoid it in writing the way you absentmindedly dodge neighbors on the sidewalk.
@astroPug @NatureMC @Richard_Littler You might be right. Perhaps we'll also fall back on older writing styles and words which have fallen out of fashion, too.
Personally, I'm reading more older works than newer ones because I'm tired of the banal style much popular current fiction is written in (and the increasing question of wondering if it is AI or AI assisted writing). I'm currently rereading a lot of Daphne du Maurier, and those older styles are creeping into my prose.