How to Seduce A Fiction Writer - What AI Knows That You Don’t - What’s imagination got to do with it? If you are a fiction writer, everything. Fiction writers are being seduced. Your hard work, honing your craft, learning to tell a story in such a compelling way that you attract dedicated readers, is authentic and refined dedication. Successful writers plow their way through stacks of rejection slips. For the devout writer that becomes a motivator, it becomes a true badge of courage that you confidently brag about. It’s proof that every successful writer knows, they proudly declare when anybody asks how they became successful as a fiction writer, they simply say, “Stick-To-Itiveness.”
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The seduction: Writers are being ensnared by AI.
It starts out innocently enough. The writer uses AI to do some research. Then the writer uses AI to help improve a sentence or how to expand upon an idea. Then it comes time for the social media promo. Of course every writer wants readers, and AI generates masterful promo pieces that entice readers to the story. Writers realize this is a quick and amazingly efficient way to get someone to read their work.
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Writers and authors are being told, “You don’t need to do all that writing work. Just let AI create it for you”. You can take the credit, you can take the bows and the accolades, after all who’s gonna know and in some cases, your readers could care less.
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And here is the biggest seduction of all. The reason social media is so successful at building and holding audiences, it’s because of what I like to call the dirty little word, sinister word, and that word is dopamine. Dopamine is wired into our brains and AI knows exactly how to trigger the dopamine effect.
AI is the elixir that can easily make mediocre writers write brilliantly. I predict it’s only gonna get worse.
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I write non-AI short fiction stories
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Sometimes One Lifetime Isn’t Enough for the Writer or the Reader
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Are you a Writer?
Struggling to stay out of, to use a nautical term, the doldrums.
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Are you a Reader?
Struggling to find something to read to rescue you from the dreaded doldrums.
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Writer or Reader, time has definable limits.
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Writer: “I Think, after all these years, I see virtue in what I’ve been doing all my life.”
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Reader: “So many books. So many great novels, so many great libraries and so many excellent bookstores. So little time.”
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The Soul of the Writer lives in the Soul of the Reader. The Soul of the Reader comfortably lives in the Soul of the Writer. It’s a universe of parallels. Where one lifetime isn’t enough.
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If It Were So - A late evening, magical writing sanctuary. The big comfortable brown leather chair. It’s one that gives and takes. In a fashion it trades on being possessed. Fortunately for me, I’ve learned to frame it as magical, as if it were so.
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On the ready for action, my iPad, microphone and attached keyboard, rest strategically.
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The comfort and the stillness of the night is a genuine allurement, causing me to doze off into a half meditative and dream-like state. I never really know if I am awake or what thoughts and ideas are floating through; looking for a home in one of my short fictional stories. I am never bashful about locking in on those ideas and letting them comfortably live in the story. The story, always the story, demanding and rarely forgiving.
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I will settle into that brown leather chair tonight. For this is the night I need to work on probably the most important installment of my short story,The Cross and The Pinecone.
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One of my principal characters is a recently married girl who receives a very special gift. It’s a book her husband discovered in a very unlikely shop. The girl and the boy she married were both orphans in an orphanage. They now work for a husband and wife, who treat them more like parents than employees.
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Here’s the trick, I need to tie together the significance of how and why the book was written by the girl's great grandmother. This is something she discovers later on in the story. It’s more than just a spiritual book. It has very deep philosophical thoughts and ideas that will directly impact both the girl and her husband.
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As I sink into the soft folds of the nurturing chair, am I up for the challenge? Will the knowing, big brown leather chair do its magic and help me again?
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So abandon doom scrolling, for at least a little while. The first installments of The Cross And The Pinecone are on my newsletter.
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I hope you’re curious to see what that book really means to the recently married girl.
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