Writers Forsaken
by Melissa Kummerow
Which stories will readers buy?
Whose time will readers abide?
AI will produce stories with perfect story formula:
the rise, the fall, the tension placed “just so.”
Characters penned with uncanny precision,
and subplots intricate-woven.
Now Humans’ stories? Maybe not so!
Some are master story-weavers.
But many more may pen
plot-holes and pockmarks,
their tension moments much too long,
maybe a sentence that doesn’t belong…
And so which stories will readers buy?
Whose stories will readers abide?
Error-ridden human scribble,
or an AI literary curation?