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The Whimsical Guide to Writing Well - Artificial Whimsy

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A practical and emotional guide to writing in the age of LLMs—we traverse the 9 circles of AI slop hell to remember why we write and how we might recover our true voices.

If the question is, “Why do you write?” Then our answer is this: When you are a writer you are effectively a translator of sense—of vision, of experience, of the visceral, of the sublime—and so I write to listen closely to life so that I may capture what it is saying faithfully, and make it legible to others: its immediacy, its force, its unflinching horror, its insistent beauty. Also this: To understand who we are. I write to make sense of the nature we’ve inherited and the nurture we’ve learned—to surface the stories we have carried within us all along. What we’re saying, in many…

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