Beyond the Draft: Why AI Won’t Save Fiction Authors (Yet)

Paolo Danese
4 min readDec 1, 2023

If I had to summarize what the first year of AI-enabled writing did, it is this: writer’s block is dead and buried. There can no longer be an excuse not to write.

With the death of writer’s block, we have seen a new generation of tools replacing the Microsoft Word-style text processor. AI is also a critical challenge to more sophisticated writing tools, like…

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Paolo Danese

Founder @ Storya. Writer. Ex-journo/editor. Interests: Gen AI, Publishing, Creator Economy, Prompting, Epic Fantasy, and more.