/lit/ - Literature

I think I get why amateur writing is so shitty. They repeat things they've heard before, without knowing exactly why it was phrased that way to begin with or what it really means. It's the same way a child develops language. And the reason most writers are absolute dogshit is that they don't have the intellect to make it out of this developmental phase. That's why bad writing is filled with needless phrases that they thought sounded cool but don't fit in, "witty" quips that ruin the flow, cliches, and tropes/archetypes. The dumber 95% of humanity cannot come up with original thoughts--they can't even understand how and why language functions. Ironically this is exactly how AI works. Which means AI can replace shitty writing that would be filling the slush pile, but it can never replace writing of any merit. No matter how many repetitions, the monkey on a typewriter will get a form rejection. Techspergs lose again.