Certainly Are...

After a few weeks of questioning my faith. I’ve come to the conclusion that I was right all along. That staring at the numbers and trying to “figure out my audience” is just a waste of my time. Recently I’ve been using an AI to critique my work. What I’ve discovered was it’s suggestions were influencing my original intention. It was pointing me to the most popular conclusion in order to maximize my viewership. But what I felt I was doing was compromising my personal style and desired interpretation.
 
It put up a valid argument that my writing style often needed clarity to engage the reader. Like I said, the AI made some valid points, but at what cost? The slight hint of wit or flow the of my unique cadence? Not every story has a positive outcome or any outcome for that matter. For me stories just flow, they each take on a life of their own. Very seldom do I rewrite a story for the sake of popularity. Being mildly dyslexic does force my to make changes to the spelling or sentence structure. But a good 90% of my storytelling begins with no set agenda, it just flows.
 
So to be influenced by a program that only sees things as black or white. Will eventually turn your toasted rye bread with avocado into plain white toast and margarine. It’s edible, but not very tasty. So due to my apparent rebellious nature, I suppose I’ll be stuck in the merges, grateful for the few fans I do have. But that’s okay, because I’ll still be able to smile to myself when a little quip or hidden line comes through in my work. I am fortunate in the fact that my livelihood isn’t totally dependent on my words. But my happiness and my desire to create certainly are.