Upon reading Gero’s article, I made a stunning realization. I’ve done so much creative work over the years, but never once have I even considered using an AI tool to gather feedback or suggestions for my content. This includes my songs, novels and most importantly, my TV series scripts. I have always felt like my writing is so personal to me that I have such an easier time having full control over it. While song lyrics typically come naturally to me, I usually have to outline each episode of the television series I write.

I have only ever used AI to help with my writing once, and it was last semester for a term paper. CoPilot gave me suggestions on how to strenghten my argument for the paper and format the flow of the paper in a clearer way. However, I didn’t feel like the system was replacing me as a writer. I simply saw it as a Mousekatool of sorts that guided me when I was not confident with my writing. With CoPilot’s help, I only changed a few minor things about the paper, but that made all the difference.

I absolutely believe that writers are allowed to use AI for suggestions towards their writing. My dad uses ChatGPT (maybe a little too much) to help him with the novel he’s writing. If writers remain aware that they are in control of their writing, they are allowed to rely on others, including AI, to strengthen their work. However, an excessive reliance on AI might be too much, and could stray the writer away from the human essence of writing. Using AI with my creative works is something I might be open to eventually, but as of right now, I am so used to keeping everything under my own control, aside from getting feedback from those who read my work.

Writing is one of the most important things to me, and it has been for years. I remember writing my first novela when I was twelve, and writing fan-fictional stories before that. I would gather characters from multiple media I enjoyed and place them all in a story together. It was like playing with toys and figurines (which I also did as a child), but in a written form rather than live playtime. I have since grown out of using pre-existing characters, of course, and I now create original characters. The first attempt at writing a television show started when I was around 16 – almost five years ago. It was a live-action series based on Minecraft. I ended up scrapping it after a year because things were not making sense. However, early this year, I gained inspiration to do it again. I am now working on a brand new live-action series based on Minecraft, this time with an entirely different premise.

While I do have that Minecraft series going for me, I do have an original series as well that I have been writing for almost four years. It’s a high-school / coming-of-age drama series with a side of crime and mystery. I wrote the original draft from 2022-2024; four complete seasons. At the end of 2024, I started rewriting the series to really hone in on the story and refine it. The rewrite is vastly different from the original, but it works better now in my opinion. I’ve only written up to the third season, so there’s one more to go. However, I’ve put my magnum opus aside to focus on the new Minecraft series script.

Now that I’ve shared some of my creative writing facts, I want to reflect on the fact that AI assistance never crossed my mind. It really shows how absolutely wild of an imagination I have. I shock myself sometimes with how my brain is able to come up with these stories, characters and themes. I love creating seperate plotlines for my shows that play out simultaneously and end up weaving into each other. Writing is such a uniquely human concept, and I never want to let go of that part of myself.