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Jonathan Matei's avatar

This is beautifully grounded and honest, especially how it shows growth as something you notice quietly rather than announce.

When was the last time you realized a hard thing had suddenly started to feel natural?

Deleyna Marr's avatar

When I switched to a Colemac keyboard. It was hard for a long time then suddenly the muscle memory kicked in. I've had similar experiences with Adobe InDesign (parts of it). How about you?

Jonathan Matei's avatar

I’ve had that same experience with writing and editing. At first everything felt slow and deliberate, but over time the muscle memory took over and it started to feel natural instead of forced.

Deleyna Marr's avatar

Beautiful! That's when writing becomes magic.

Nan G's avatar

Hi Deleyna. I starting to feel more ease that AI can assist me in progressing in my writing and learning. Recently it provide a list of improvements that can help me improve phrasing of the novel I’m writing. By that, I mean help “listening” to the sound of what I write. Thanks for the reminder to look at these small transformations!

Deleyna Marr's avatar

Yay, Nan! AI can be helpful. You're still the writer. What I love is that sometimes I can feel that a piece is not quite right. I know the metaphor I want, the way I want the words to sound, but getting it perfect would take me forever. I can take those to an AI and it'll give me suggestions. Then I take those and build on them. It is doing what I directed it to do. And it saves me time and energy. There's power there!