Oh how I wish I could blame AI.
That would be so easy, wouldn’t it? I could sit here and claim that AI is ruining the writing industry and as a result, I have less and less motivation to create wonderful stories. Only, AI isn’t ruining the industry quite yet. In fact, AI creative writing is pretty easy to spot and often not very good. I could argue that easy, not so deep writing (i.e. beach or airplane books) are ruining me and crushing my will to write because they come out so fast and have such a fervent following (easily likened to that of romance novels) that I am losing my will to write.
Also not true.
The truth is that I am struggling to put my butt in the chair because the stories I am telling are only interesting enough to me in concept and not execution, so I cannot dream up the will or intricacy to actually write them. I’m bored by my own stuff! Stephen King famously wrote about losing the thread of stories, once even writing himself into a story where he lost the thread. I am not doing that. I am not doing anything right now except for wallowing. So, I decided to own up to that here in the blog.
I need to find better stories to tell. I need to find the stories that excite me enough to write them. If I don’t, this entire enterprise may be reduced to little more than a blog and a teaching resume.
Some Thoughts:
- Absolutely Bonkers Headline of the Day: “Trump draws Marie Antoinette comparisons as he leans into the gilded trappings of the presidency” How are we in this timeline?
- Speaking of Timelines and the Multiverse, Doom trailer dropped at CinemaCon. I’m supposed to be excited, I guess.