Is it okay to be a bad writer if you enjoy what you write?

[nice90sguy]

Ah yes, the surprisingly common fetish known as litdom.

It all started with my English teacher, but that story is strictly ASSTR.org

 

[CalBishForNow]

Fuck Deepseek. I've seen your improvement and I think it's awesome.

The only quality metric that matters is your own.

Yeah, OP, I'm sorry it took 17 comments for someone to make this point. Maybe you're a bad writer and maybe you're not, and if you're bad maybe it's OK and maybe it isn't (you have to put food on the table somehow!), but asking an AI this is one of the worst uses of AI I can think of.

 

[droberts44]

I haven't posted anything in several months, but I've been slowly working on a couple stories.

I've known since I started that I'm not a good writer, but I liked what I was posting up. I don't really have the drive to be the best writer ever, but I was hoping that there would be some improvement.

Today I put a draft of a story in DeepSeek and told it to give me a harsh critique. It said it was bad and that I should delete the draft and start over (among other things).

Fine, I told it to be harsh and it was, but it also told me things that I know about my writing.

I don't know what I'm looking for, but is it okay to suck at writing and know you suck, if you like what you write?

Sure, keep at it.

 

[MillieDynamite]

After all, AI would never tell you that you're a bad writer unless it thought that was what you wanted it to say.

Yeah, OP, I'm sorry it took 17 comments for someone to make this point. Maybe you're a bad writer and maybe you're not, and if you're bad maybe it's OK and maybe it isn't (you have to put food on the table somehow!), but asking an AI this is one of the worst uses of AI I can think of.