Nanowrimo... uh-oh

I keep thinking about getting involved in Nanowrimo - National Novel Writing Month. I'm not short of ideas, I'm short of "butt in the chair" time and energy which this may help kick start my writing. Last year, I just didn't have the spoons.

This year however...

There appears to be a big debate about using AI (Large Language Models) as an aid to writing your novel in November. I think the look at it as another form of adaptive technology: something to help people write. Adaptive technology - like large screens for visually impaired folks, or voice to text for those with mobility issues - helps bring out the information and talent within the writer themselves. AI... does not. Large Language Models scrapes the words and form from others, mashes them up and applies filters to the result. There's no intelligence, no talent, no spark that comes from humans in the result: just a rehash of dead authors.

I should just start writing again on a daily basis and damn the spoons.