Peter McAllister

So yeah, no, I wouldn't use it because...

The process I like to use is dump, edit, dump, edit, dump, edit.

Absolutely.

I mean, when I was writing that book, there'd be sentences which I would spend half an hour writing.

on, just trying to decide if I've got the right verb or if I've got the right noun that's giving it the impact I want from that sentence.

And it's about mulling over what's it like with this, what's it like with that.

And you can spend hours down that rabbit hole.

And then other bits will just come out fully formed and you go, yep, that's fine.

I don't need to do anything with it.

But that fine tuning, that thought of what feeling does this have?

Because when I'm writing, my aim is to give enough information for the reader to draw a picture in their own head.

but not tell them where all the lines are and what all the colors are and all of those kinds of business pieces.

Let their brain create that based on the sketch that I'm providing in the writing and then weave it on from there.

So that's the way I tend to do it.

And that tends to mean lots of time crafting specific sentences or specific paragraphs to drive in a particular way.

Yeah, look, I don't – well, as it is at the moment, AI can't do that because – and I apologize to all the ChatGPT fans and all those kinds of bits and pieces.

LLMs are just a really, really, really, really, really overblown autocorrect.

It's just patterns.

And in the way I tend to write, I like to put together a sentence or put together something which takes the reader that reads the first half of the sentence and goes, I know how this sentence is going to finish.

And it doesn't finish that way.