No More Heroes or Villains
No More Heroes or Villains I'm a writer, and today I killed an article. It wasn't a bad article. The reporting was solid. The structure worked. The facts checked out. But something felt off. After staring at it for a while, I realized the problem wasn't the subject. It was the tone. Over the last few weeks I've been experimenting with different AI systems as part of my writing workflow. Some are better researchers. Some are better editors. Some are better at generating first drafts. Most of the time I'm not looking for a finished article. I'm looking for background information, angles, and ideas. Many of those articles never get published. This was one of them. The funny thing is that the article led me somewhere unexpected. It reminded me of being a kid. Back then I read Highlights . I read Scholastic News . I read the local newspaper. Looking back, I don't remember many...