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For Authors: November 29, 2023 Issue [#12258]




 This week: "A Certain Dreadful Fascination"
  Edited by: NaNoNette Author IconMail Icon
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"Creativity can’t happen without sentience, and there are now arguments that some AIs are indeed sentient." ~ Stephen King


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"A Certain Dreadful Fascination"


The conversation about Artificial Intelligence ebbs and flows here on the site. Most of us have some kind of thoughts on the matter.

After all, AI isn't just (possibly) replacing fiction writers. We encounter it's inane cousin floating in the bottom right corner of many websites. Ready and present to pretend to be a real person only to flame out with the first sentence that doesn't contain the right keywords. Sometimes, AI picks up the phone at the bank or other places where we hoped to speak to a representative.

Back to AI in fiction. How do the professionals feel about it? In short: most hate it. Except ... out of all people ... Stephen King finds AI fascinating. I can't say that I am entirely surprised. After abducting us, holding us hostage with a killer clown in the sewers, and trapping us under a dome, he probably doesn't think much of the rise of the robots.

King says that he would not even try to stop AI from reading and copying his books. In his understanding, trying to hold up the ascension of AI is like trying to tell the tide not to come in. Easy for him to say. He's been very successful in creative writing for many decades. If AI were to unseat him now, he will always be able to look back on a full career of writing for people's entertainment.

As fiction writers, we should all take a page from Stephen King's relaxed approach to AI. Personally, I picture a future where books and articles are labeled like chips and other industrial foods. The foods tell us that they contain genetically modified organisms. The text will have a label at the beginning telling us (proudly or because the publisher is forced to) that a text was generated with the help of AI.

It will ultimately be up to the public to accept or reject AI generated fiction.


Is it really surprising that Stephen King is not terrified by AI?


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Ask & Answer

Replies to my last For Authors newsletter "Metaphor, Simile, and AnalogyOpen in new Window. that asked: What are your thoughts on using metaphors, similes, and analogies in fiction writing?

Nobody’s Home Author Icon wrote: Great newsletter! I enjoy using metaphor and simile, though I don't go out looking for ways to insert them into my fiction writing. When I have an idea for a metaphor, I can have a lot of fun extending it. The item you listed in your Editor's Picks (thank you!) began as a boring list of crafts I used to do that transformed into something quite different when I recognized and applied an extended metaphor as I wrote. ––For me, analogy isn't as attractive–maybe because of the style of writing I do, or because I haven't practiced it well enough to enjoy it.

I think it's so cool that you have put so much thought into it and how to use it for writing.

Olivia: it's NaNo-Time 34612 Author Icon wrote: Ms. NaNoNette Author IconMail Icon, I have the quote on a sign in my bookshelf.*Heart*
My writing's full of metaphors, similes and analogies.*Blush* I do it naturally and unintended.
Faces are "screaming guilt", " like / as" are common visitors in my syntax, and don't get me started on analogies.
Often German references trickle into my writing, like in this analogy (I think*Think*): "I've got as much knowledge of non-crop plants as Angela Merkel has of being a *peeping* super model."
My FMC wanted to express how her try to get her future mom-in-law a flower bouquet for her birthday / 50th wedding anniversary is doomed to fail, because the only plants which survive under her "Grüner Daumen" are those who feed her... and whom she feeds in return.*Idea*

I like that, how you have metaphors naturally present in your writing.

And a reply to an older newsletter "The Other HalfOpen in new Window. by Elfin Dragon-finally published Author Icon: Revise, revise, revise. I think that's all I do sometimes. *Shock*

And another reply to another older newsletter "Writing Bucket ListOpen in new Window. by Elfin Dragon-finally published Author Icon: My Writing Bucket List scares me.

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