When I turn on my computer, the lock screen has a message for me. “Say goodbye to writer’s block and hello to endless possibilities with Microsoft Word 365 Co-Pilot.”
Coincidentally, I have been suffering with writer’s block for the past two days. For me, it is a grinding frustration accompanied by the fear that I’ll never be able to write again. Then, I do.
Writer’s block is the curse we test our creative chops against. Sure, it is agonizing to cast about clogged and directionless, but then there’s that lightning strike showing the way forward. I want to blaze my word trail. I have no interest in a short cut to a finished product.
So here I sit, staring at a screen as blank as my brain. I despise this. But even more, I despise that AI has been programmed to exploit the writer’s block struggle by offering to settle the trial minus the fire, which is when it hits me, and see? The words come.
They were just percolating in your mind. Fresh brew!
As usual, you took the words from my mind and put them to paper. For me, the best cure for writer's block is a long run in nature, and I refuse to let AI dominate my body and mind's clear need for solitude among the trees!