I know that a number of writers curse AI. But for writing, when used properly, AI can be a wondrous helper. It can interpret the deep meaning of your Literary Fiction writing, ensuring that you are conveying the deep meanings that you intend to. AI is not generating your writing, but analyzing what you wrote. I had written what I thought was a particularly clever paragraph, packed with hidden meanings. But sometimes, what you think you wrote and what you have actually written are two different things. This comes from the fact that humans, to each other, are all aliens. All through school you were taught that though we are different on the outside, that we are all the same on the inside. Once you become a writer and publish and receive feedback from people, you begin to realize that it's just not true: we are all aliens to each other. It's pretty obvious in that if our genes are randomly mutated generation to generation, those genes control our brain's construction, and thus our brains will have differing construction between people. And though an MRI might not show a huge difference, most of the interesting things in the brain happen at the microscopic level, which is where the greatest differences can occur. Okay, let get into things. Here is the paragraph from my WIP Book #2, "Who is Tova?" from my 8 volume Book Series, "Stefan's Owl from Oblivion." So I asked the AI if it could understand the writing. Here is what it said: As you can see, the AI apparently did understand the meaning of what I wrote in a fairly deep way. Now it cannot tell me whether readers will actually understand what I wrote. But it tells me that what I wrote could be understood. That's what's important for Literary Fiction. Unlike Genre Fiction, where one must adjust the writing level to match the skills of the majority of possible readers, Literary Fiction readers are expected to work a bit.
As a result, Literary Fiction generally is not the style of writing to invest in if you have dreams of having millions of readers and making lots of money. It is the style you use to express that unique piece of literary art you have in your head---to try to advance the art form itself. My book series does not focus on providing page after page of difficult to decode passages. However it does offer up a little bit of literary candy occasionally. Primarily, I use child characters to reveal the philosophical truths and puzzles that have bedeviled humans for thousands of years. And in so doing, reveal an inner, difficult to reveal part of the human condition.
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Rusty BieseleOwner of the Children of Sophista Publishing and currently the author of books in the Children of Sophista universe. CategoriesArchives
August 2023
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