How AI Made Me a Lazy Writer

Read this if you are serious about your writing career.

Not too long ago, I succumbed to tech pressure and did the unthinkable — I let Artificial Intelligence write stories for me.

And this is what happened to me.

I began to question why I should suffer to write again when AI is here. I suddenly had the Lazy Writer Plague (no, not writer’s block. This is much worse).

And what was shocking was that AI didn’t write perfect stories like a machine may be expected to. The words were wooden and without life. They were ambiguous where there should have been simple. They lectured where they should have communicated.

I remember chatting with a friend and he said how AI has made writing easy and that he could write a story in no time or that sorta thing. There was also the suggestion that I could just take some time to properly edit what AI had written and I would be good.

Guess what happened?

A certain (writer) depression seemed to wash over me. I was excited from the onset when I discovered what this new technology can do, but then this turned to creeping sadness. It was almost as if I had lost all purpose.

And I think I know why I passed through that phase.

— writing is a journey. It should be an experience, a discovery.

So, I stopped writing for a little while, and then one day a story idea reared its head in my mind, and I grabbed my laptop and wrote and wrote and wrote. I was excited, I was happy. I WAS BACK!

Now I understand how best AI can serve any writer who cares to use it. Yes, USE It with emphasis because the reverse can be the case.

The best way to use AI is to give it a prompt and wait to see how it would treat the idea you give to it. Most times the manner it turns a story around is mind blowing. But that’s where it should stop — mind blowing. Now, you take the reins and write your story. AI only helped you see the possibilities. It has served the purpose of triggering your imagination beyond your wildest imagination.

This is what I think AI should be to a writer — a robot that helps you see how far you can go. A robot that expands or, where necessary, shows you were a story could lead.

That’s all.

Don’t get lazy. Don’t be sucked into thinking you have been replaced. No. You can call it your WRITING ASSISTANT if you want. Don’t let it become what it isn’t — human!

Now I can let out the sigh.