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The pages and the pencil...
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I’m “working” –– chaperoning 14 students to Terrassa. While here, when I have a free moment, I’m finishing a manuscript.
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| Sitges, Spain |
My process ends with a pencil and a hardcopy. I don’t make final edits on my laptop. I need the pages, my clipboard, and always a mechanical pencil. Editing on paper versus the screen has long been debated. I know many people who don’t edit the final copy on paper. They like to be able to quickly cut and move things around. For me, though, I need to cross out, draw arrows, and write henscratch in the margins. Reading on the screen feels too much like composing. The hardcopy, for whatever reason, provides a separation –– I’m a reader, not a writer when I hold the pages.
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One topic has come up repeatedly in my work as a school administrator: ChatGPT. Who is using it? How to prevent it? Should we embrace it?
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| Montserrat, Spain |
If you haven’t heard, ChatGPT is an AI writing program. I recently told a parent group that if I was paying for a student to get a technical writing degree right now, I’d be very nervous. The program can write what you need –– and pretty well –– in a matter of seconds. I imagine some writing professions will go by the wayside.
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| Joy |
Which brings me to the question: How will it impact our work as fiction writers? I would love to know what my colleagues at Type M and our readers think.
What’s the future of ChatGPT?
Will it impact fiction writing as we know it?
John, this is making me really nervous. I'm glad you called for comments because I want to know what the other Type M'ers think of this. I can't stand the thought of this app taking over creative work, but writing all of the required social media stuff doesn't sound like such a bad idea.
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