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The Urge to Fix the Weird Parts
What this episode is about
AI has become the most rigid, literal editor in the world—determined to stamp out your unique writing messiness every time you color outside the literary lines. But some of your real voice lives in the roughness. This episode is about why the weird, unpolished parts of your writing might be the most valuable parts, and what happens when you let AI sand them off.
In this episode
Emily Dickinson's fight with her editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson over her "weird" punctuation and rhythm—and why AI is now playing the same role. Why the sentence that sounds "better" can…
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