Respect for authors who spent their time crafting novels, with no AI support (don’t think there’s anyone left now).
I started 3 years ago and the number of trashed first chapters, man…….lol
I think about this a lot. I use AI tools daily but the writers who built without it had a craft that's different. The question is whether AI-assisted work can match the depth of something fully human-crafted. Have you experimented with AI for your writing at all, or do you keep it fully manual?