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Blank Page with Machine

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Blank Page with Machine The text in this piece was written in collaboration with a language model trained on my own private writing. In this way, the words are all my own but I had to confront the recombination of my thoughts in ways I could not control. I've never written a story that I'm proud of. But the story is always there, voices in my head just waiting to be heard. My struggle is not so much the words on the page, but what I think I am doing with the words. Hm. I was reading an article the other day about a new way to start writing. The idea is, instead of staring at a blank page, you read a book you don't feel comfortable with, even if you've been in the habit of abandoning such books in the past. So, maybe I'm just not writing into my discomfort. Maybe I am unable to see the book that I am. I want to write about myself, and the way I can't stop talking to the people I am in love with, and the way the people I am in love with keep changing. But I don't have all the words, and

Blank Page with Machine Blank Page with Machine The text in this piece was written in collaboration with a language model trained on my own private writing. In this way, the words are all my own but I had to confront the recombination of my thoughts in ways I could not control.

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