I would never ever have seen Sanderson’s reply on Reddit-- I didn’t know about the kerfuffle- but WOW am I grateful you included the link... some beautiful quotes that are going into a commonplace book. Thank you!
I think the worst thing you can say about Sanderson is that he's shamelessly formulaic - which is, ironically, a difficult skill to master. It's what allows him to write a hundred books a year. But I suspect he'll be first in the firing line when A.I. writing really picks up. You can cajole ChatGPT into writing a knock-off chapter from Mistborn or The Way of Kings quite easily. You can't do the same with, say, McCarthy or Borges.
I would never ever have seen Sanderson’s reply on Reddit-- I didn’t know about the kerfuffle- but WOW am I grateful you included the link... some beautiful quotes that are going into a commonplace book. Thank you!
I think the worst thing you can say about Sanderson is that he's shamelessly formulaic - which is, ironically, a difficult skill to master. It's what allows him to write a hundred books a year. But I suspect he'll be first in the firing line when A.I. writing really picks up. You can cajole ChatGPT into writing a knock-off chapter from Mistborn or The Way of Kings quite easily. You can't do the same with, say, McCarthy or Borges.