Determined Suwoo 🫡

“The morning after” and I’m still so emotional and incredibly proud of Bad Bunny. Brilliant performance, brilliant messages. The sugar cane fields, the bodega, the wedding, the baby boy with the Grammy, the love… I hope he’s proud of himself and knows how big what he did last night was.

If you read those last two announcements and thought “I’m not reading that,” no shade, but it proves the point. We cannot afford to become lazy with writing and reading. With thinking.
          
          If we do, we risk losing much more than just the art form. Much more.
          
          Just my two cents that no one asked for. But, I’ve been doing this writing thing for a long time, so I figured I could butt in on the conversation.
          
          Bonne nuit! ❤️

2/2
          
          In any art form, and specifically writing, AI could not begin to express humanity in the way an author can. AI could not illustrate subtle human movements or thoughts or feelings or experiences. AI is not human but we are.
          
          It simply should not be acceptable to use AI to plot for you, to brainstorm, to character map, to suggest vocabulary, to check for mistakes in your chapter…
          
          Instead, write with the dictionary/thesaurus app open. Read novels of the genre you write so you can better understand how to plot and pace that genre. Take time to learn your characters so that you can properly breathe life into them. Read scholarly articles and newspapers/news articles so you can master punctuation and grammar.
          
          Writing is not just a “know how” thing. Every writer has a voice, a technique, a style—and if you’re real good, your own flavor. But you don’t get that by consulting AI. You get that by respecting the art and continually working towards mastering it.
          
          I would hope we can at least all agree on that.
          
          Reading is resistance. Writing is resistance. Keeping this art alive and untainted by the touch of AI is resistance. Intellectualism—the force that drove Zora Neale Hurston and Carter G. Woodson and James Baldwin and Octavia Butler and Toni Morrison—and drives Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yaa Gyaasi and S.A. Cosby and Tananarive Due and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie—still matters. It’s our responsibility as readers and writers to protect it.

1/2:
          
          On using AI for art, but specifically for writing:
          
          I am not always the best at expressing my thoughts, so please bear with me here. It’s not lost on me that AI couldn’t replicate even the coming ramblings, so… I think that counts for something…
          
          There have been plenty arguments made here about the dangers of AI. How it affects our world, our environment, our communities… our global economy. I won’t beat a dead horse by once again drilling in your heads the harm that AI has, is, and will continue to do to us. Instead, let’s look at this from another perspective.
          
          As readers, but especially as writers, we should not undermine the damage that taking the easy way out (that is, using AI for writing) does to our brains. Right now, more than half the United States reads below a 6th grade reading level. For years now, I’ve noticed the subtle decline in grammar, spelling, pronunciation, punctuation, sentence structure, etc… I’m a big bookworm. My average is 60> books read per year, and even in [newer/more recently released] published books I’ve noticed these things. Guys, publishing houses are allowing mistakes to be made and still putting the books out for consumption.
          
          That’s where we’re at right now.
          
          I remember a long time ago, I had a writing tips book and one of the tips I gave to become a better writer was to read. Read articles, read novels, read newspapers. Just read. It is impossible to grow as a writer if you don’t read.
          
          But what happens when even the published novels are rife with grammatical, structural, and punctuation errors? As readers, as writers, it’s imperative that we fight this current wave of mass anti-intellectualism with respect for the art of literature. It’s even more imperative that we hold fast to literature being completely and utterly human.
          
          Made by humans for humans.

Merry Chrimuhhh!
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/403446524?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=postToProfile&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details&wp_uname=thesusiesjointz

Write an unreliable narrator… check.
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/402701092?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=postToProfile&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details&wp_uname=thesusiesjointz

Testing the waters a lil bit… did any of y’all used to read REIGN…
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/403061614?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=postToProfile&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details&wp_uname=thesusiesjointz

Okay, so guys…
          
          I lost my stories. When I deactivated my last account I copied all my stories and saved them on a flash drive. Well… the flash drive broke (in the absolute stupidest way might I add). But before I had got the flash drive, I tried sending the stories to my email. The longer stories’ files were too big so only the shorter stories could send.
          
          All this to say, I still have all my one shots, Fever, Lemonade, and… Jaded. I don’t mind posting the one shots and Lemonade maybe. I will NAWT be posting Fever lol. Idk if anybody even remembers these stories I’m naming lol. But I reallyyyyy want to continue Jaded (the story with the country Michael). I have thought about that story everyday in the two years since I left. I have so many plans for it that I want to see come to life. Would yall actually read it?
          
          Sn: the way I still can’t believe “yours.”, “ours.”, and “REIGN” are gone forever. I shed actual tears yall.