Monday

I woke up with a big long list of To-Dos and the inspiration for a new novel. I don’t have time to write a novel this week. I hadn’t planned on writing a novel this week. I have a million things to complete before our Christmas catalogue gets released on October 17th! I have every second between now and then budgeted for. So, of course today I would wake up with unbearable inspiration to write!

I hurried through the necessary admin planning as fast as possible, and then allowed myself an hour to write. I wrote over 1100 words. I can type 2000 words per hour, but when I’m thinking and erasing and rewriting sentences, I can easily get 1000 words. Normally in a first-draft scenario, I just write nonstop and get about 2000 words per hour. This is how I can write 10K words per day if I’m unhindered by work. I can literally write 50K words per week if that is the only thing I’m doing. R said, “You shouldn’t tell people how fast you can write a book or they’ll think you’re using ai to write it.” I never considered that, and I don’t normally brag about how fast I can write a book anyway. I’m usually too busy. Besides, I assumed all writers could write that fast anyway. AND that’s just a first draft. In revisions, it takes me considerably longer. But yes, I can physically write, from my own head, my own imagination typing nonstop 10K words per day. For my last two books, I was in a time crunch so I wrote 15k words per day and wrote the entire novel in four days. It took about 8 days of revision which felt like forever.

And, not to get on the whole anti-ai bandwagon or rant, but yeah, if you use ai to WRITE you’re book, you’re not writing your book. I made sure it is very clear on our website that we do not accept any submissions at all written by ai. And trust me, we can tell. Even without running it through an ai checker, you can easily tell if something is written by ai. As soon as I see a “not this, but that” or an incorrectly done em dash, it’s over for them. But besides, ai-written novels are horrible. Literally bad writing. It is weak, empty, soulless, cliched and all around bad writing.

A more accurate term for people doing that would be “content creator” or “content generator” but not “writer”.

Ugh, looks like I got on that anti-ai bandwagon rant after all. And I’m not against ai. I’m not anti-ai. Ai is a tool with great potential and a lot of beneficial capabilities. Writing books is not one of them. And it’s not even that I think ai ‘steals’ novels like some people believe. It’s just that it is poor and uninteresting writing! It could only be mistaken for being written by a human if the human were dead and through with this world and had no emotion left in them and tried to write what would sound like a well-constructed sentence. Bad writing. Enough about that.

Tbh, the main thing I use ai for is like a quick google lol. “Look up this and get me the address.” OR sometimes if I want entertainment I tell one ai (like Venice ai) that ChatGPT has challenged it to a duel and then I copy and paste each ai’s duel contributions back and forth and watch the sparks fly. I haven’t done that for a while because I have only done that when I have too much time on my hands or insomnia.

Okay, I admit I’m weird.