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This is not as much about me or AI but more a comment on current situations.  Like everyone, I get a ton of spam.  And like most writers out there, I consider AI-generated content to be complete and utter bullshit.  What is AI good for?  It’s good for doing medical research.  It’s great for looking at X-rays and detecting breast cancer.  It’s even good for spotting trends and giving people options for moving forward.

But it’s NOT suitable for writing.  Not in the sense that 90% of people believe.  Why?  Because true writing is a work of passion, and computers don’t have passion.  If you use AI to write something for you, you’re going to end up with bland, generic, pasty-ass mediocre bullshit.

This morning, I got a spam message that came from my own domain name (walterwrites.com) – except it looked a little off.  And that’s when I noticed it wasn’t a .com, but a .ai extension.  So I looked it up, and apparently, there’s a new AI writing service that has a domain that is nearly identical to my own, and it’s there to help people use AI for writing so that it’s “undetectable” as AI.

Let me be clear: you can use AI for many things.  You can even use it as a sounding board to listen to your ideas and get feedback.  But in the end, only an author can actually put pen to paper or fill out a blank page with a soul-filled manuscript.  Everyone can see if you use AI to do the actual writing.  Maybe not at first, but AI-generated works lack the empathetic, heart-filled words that humans can only create.

I don’t wish that similarly-named AI website harm.  But at the same time, I don’t wish them success, either.  They’re the problem with what’s happening in today’s writing world.

Oh my

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So I am on Twitter talking to other authors about websites, and – ding ding ding!  I realize that I haven’t posted anything on here in nine months.  That’s long enough to conceive a baby, bring it to term, have it, and contemplate the next eighteen years as a caregiver to a child I didn’t know I had until the start of this blog post.  Yeesh.

Not that Boo and I are capable of having children, what both being dudes and all.  But I digress.

Things have been going slow on the writing front for the last few months, as evidenced by the fact that I haven’t published anything since Migration: Beginnings was re-published in the Summer of 2018.  Thing is, I have so many ideas, that I told someone who is helping me with getting my professional head on straight, that it’s almost like overload paralysis.

But I’m making progress.

I was supposed to be writing the prequel and first book of the romance series that I’m writing with my coauthor Lisa (who wrote ‘A Million Miles Amok’ with me).  But the bug to work on a new Migration book has really captured me.  So that, plus the fact that I’m taking part in CampNanoWrimo with my friend Nazri, means I’m working on that series.  I hope to get the sequel finished by the end of June, and I should be able to make it.  I’m nearly 20,000 words in, and have everything plotted.  It’s just that I throw my own roadblocks up from time to time with how I think the story should go.  Oh well, more time to work out the details with Shavonne (seriously, she’s a great sounding board and instigator of wonderful ideas.  Here’s her website if you’re interested!).

Still have a couple of hours to go on today’s Migration chapter, so back to it.  Catch you all on Twitter!