My gut reaction to this is that if I'm aiming to write "what readers want," I might as well save a crap-load of effort and be using AI to generate the slop.
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My gut reaction to this is that if I'm aiming to write "what readers want," I might as well save a crap-load of effort and be using AI to generate the slop. This is authorship as production, not as craft.
I want my readers to think about things in ways they might not want to; I want expand how people think, not service some status quo.
For fiction, this is easily the worst writing advice I've seen in years, and only applicable if your sole objective is revenue, not art.
For non-fiction, the goal is usually not selling books, its getting more clients/business, so yeah, giving your readers a mental orgasm probably works well. Still, ugh.
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RE: https://me.dm/@AngieMangino/116205370848624851
My gut reaction to this is that if I'm aiming to write "what readers want," I might as well save a crap-load of effort and be using AI to generate the slop. This is authorship as production, not as craft.
I want my readers to think about things in ways they might not want to; I want expand how people think, not service some status quo.
For fiction, this is easily the worst writing advice I've seen in years, and only applicable if your sole objective is revenue, not art.
For non-fiction, the goal is usually not selling books, its getting more clients/business, so yeah, giving your readers a mental orgasm probably works well. Still, ugh.
@alan Non-fiction writer here and agreed on mental orgasms!
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RE: https://me.dm/@AngieMangino/116205370848624851
My gut reaction to this is that if I'm aiming to write "what readers want," I might as well save a crap-load of effort and be using AI to generate the slop. This is authorship as production, not as craft.
I want my readers to think about things in ways they might not want to; I want expand how people think, not service some status quo.
For fiction, this is easily the worst writing advice I've seen in years, and only applicable if your sole objective is revenue, not art.
For non-fiction, the goal is usually not selling books, its getting more clients/business, so yeah, giving your readers a mental orgasm probably works well. Still, ugh.
@alan I agree with what you said, but since the article is on Medium and I don’t have an account, it’s unclear which specific advice it is that you’re disagreeing with
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@alan I agree with what you said, but since the article is on Medium and I don’t have an account, it’s unclear which specific advice it is that you’re disagreeing with
@aronsilver Yeah. I had to create a throw-away email to read it. My biased synopsis: go talk to your readers, figure out what they want to read, then write that.
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