Alt title: Why the best writers still think writing is hard.

You’d think that people who write for a living would feel that writing is easy.

But they don’t.

Even though writing (especially for live performance) is essentially a playground—a blank canvas on which to create anything—getting into the craft requires discipline and patience.

The hardest thing (for everyone) is staring a blank page.

That’s why writers are some of the most vocal critics of AI at the moment. 1) AI makes writing too easy. and 2) The outputs of AI aren’t your own, so you shouldn’t be proud of what the algorithm produces and say “Look what I made, ma!”

For those that feel writing is a craft, an art form, and a deeply important part of human expression, use AI judiciously, if at all.

For those who hate writing and just want to sell more tickets to your car wash? Go nuts!