Writers Forsaken

by Melissa Kummerow

above image and thumbnail are from the movie Hugo

 

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?

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