Automation

As a wanna-be writer, I am often exposed to books and websites and so on that purport to have the secret to writing best-selling books.  One almost gets the impression that if one could only eliminate the passive, ensure that the main character works their way through a checklist of actions in the first chapter, never confuses “that” and “which”, and avoid the use of “they” as a singular indefinite pronoun, success would automatically follow.   I’ve always been skeptical of writing good fiction through rules, but now comes this.  If a computer can recognize a double-entendre, surely a fully-automated best-seller writing program is not far behind.  Hard times indeed.

~ by smwilliams on May 5, 2011.

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