sometimes i catch myself writing like a damn robot and sometimes i catch YALL writing like this :// and the next time it happens ima do this to us by "like a robot" i mean writing that has clearly been created by layering some specific set of prompts and constraints such that their interaction removes creativity from the process and replaces it with problem solving: "how do i write a [starting equipment] table entry for an [armor item] that provides [some snippet of lore] specific to the [family history] of [the ostrich king], if the [armor item] should provide a [defensive] effect at the cost of a [minor drawback] and the description should include the concepts [camel], [balance] and [beauty]*" i have been thinking a lot lately about the dearth of what i would call Real Art in the writing produced by this scene (the scene reading this right now <3), particularly the with regard to the fact that despite the sense i have that my work is largely placed in the ...
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