[kelseyfrog]

I went through a phase where I milled responses through grinding plates of LLMs. Whether my reasons are shared with others remains unknown.

My relationship with writing, while improved, has been a difficult one. Part of me has always felt that there was a gap in my writing education. The choices other writers seem to make intuitively - sentence structure, word choice, and expression of ideas - do not come naturally to me. It feels like everyone else received the instructions and I missed that lesson.

The result was a sense of unequal skill. Not because my ideas are any less deserving, but because my ability to articulate them doesn't do them justice. The conceit is that, "If I was able to write better, more people would agree with me." It's entirely based on ego and fear of rejection.

Eventually, I learned that no matter how polished my writing is, even restructured by LLMs, it won't give me what I craved. At that moment, the separation of writer and words widened to a point where it wasn't about me anymore and more about them, the readers. This distance made all the difference and now I write with my own voice however awkward that may be.

[elzbardico]

Did you use AI for this answer?

Because it looks completely adequate for me. Maybe you're not the bad writer you think you are.

[kelseyfrog]

No, I wrote it by hand on my phone. Thanks! Appreciate the feedback and outside perspective :)

[Ithildin]

This was super relatable. Thank you for sharing. You're definitely not alone in this.