ChatGPT Told Me How To Win At Writing Despite All The AI

I asked Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT how to thrive in a world of AI and only ChatGPT gave an answer I can live with

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Words have always fed me. Six, seven years old, carrying books home from the library two blocks from mama’s house, crawling in and out of stories like ants in a log, bees in a honeycomb. Filling my belly.

Laying on the floor, a fat red pencil gripped in little fingers, writing clumsy poems and stories about butterflies and wise old trees that could talk.

Don’t know why words always meant so much to me, but they did.

To write for a living? Omg, a dream come true. You know?

First time I got paid for writing was a print magazine. Mailed off words in manila envelopes, crossed my fingers and sometimes they came back in the mail but other times they paid me and I just — couldn’t get enough.

I did every kind of writing someone would pay for. Copywriting, essays, ghostwriting, op-eds, tutorials, business articles, ad-copy, didn’t matter what kind of writing it was. It was just — the magic of stringing words.

Never thought there’d be a day words let me down.