This is a very powerful letter! I have previously mentioned that I am not a professional writer, but I love everything about the writing process. When I taught English writing was always my favorite thing to teach. I know that I want to write a collection about birds. I don't know what form it is going to take yet, but I am looking forward to the process. Writing has also been a form of therapy for me. Nothing can replace it!
AI has taken my paid writing work away from me, and I refuse to let it take my creative writing. The struggle to find the words IS the art.
So looking forward to 1000 Words this year. Thank you for everything you do for writers. This really does feel like a community. If you’re ever up in Baltimore, I would love to buy you a drink/feed you. ❤️
New subscriber here, just wanted to say that your book 1000 Words has mattered so much to me -- it's the roomful of writing friends I wanted but didn't have. And today's post lit the fire under me to finally become a paid subscriber. Grateful to be here in community with others drawn to your work, and big yes to this: "The words do so many different things for people. If your writing is for comfort, let it comfort you. If your writing is for process, let it be for process. If your writing is to change your life or even the world, let that change roll. If your words are a war cry, for the love of God, please howl."
Yes, thank you. I write because I need to write, and I have needed to write since I first learned to read, 60+ years ago. AI is a blight—upon the earth and upon our collective intelligence and creativity.
Yes to all of this. I wrote today and it felt great, and it was just for me, for now, maybe forever, but what I played with today, what I planted today, may grow into something else that means something to someone else. Human to human to human.
AI feels so much like an an uninvited guest, unlike people here, thank goodness. Cynthia
Yes, absolutely! Thank you, Jami! Well said.
This is a very powerful letter! I have previously mentioned that I am not a professional writer, but I love everything about the writing process. When I taught English writing was always my favorite thing to teach. I know that I want to write a collection about birds. I don't know what form it is going to take yet, but I am looking forward to the process. Writing has also been a form of therapy for me. Nothing can replace it!
AI has taken my paid writing work away from me, and I refuse to let it take my creative writing. The struggle to find the words IS the art.
So looking forward to 1000 Words this year. Thank you for everything you do for writers. This really does feel like a community. If you’re ever up in Baltimore, I would love to buy you a drink/feed you. ❤️
New subscriber here, just wanted to say that your book 1000 Words has mattered so much to me -- it's the roomful of writing friends I wanted but didn't have. And today's post lit the fire under me to finally become a paid subscriber. Grateful to be here in community with others drawn to your work, and big yes to this: "The words do so many different things for people. If your writing is for comfort, let it comfort you. If your writing is for process, let it be for process. If your writing is to change your life or even the world, let that change roll. If your words are a war cry, for the love of God, please howl."
I’m so glad you liked the book!! And glad you are here too!
Bravo!
Hear fucking hear!!
brava and amen!! i am esp so sick of how every platform and device tries to shove it down our throats too!
Meeee toooo.
Yes! ❤️
Yes!
Yes, thank you. I write because I need to write, and I have needed to write since I first learned to read, 60+ years ago. AI is a blight—upon the earth and upon our collective intelligence and creativity.
Thank you for writing so boldly about the evils — yes, evils — of using AI for creativity.
Hear, hear to all of this!
Yes to all of this. I wrote today and it felt great, and it was just for me, for now, maybe forever, but what I played with today, what I planted today, may grow into something else that means something to someone else. Human to human to human.