Comments for Kristen Lamb

Comment on Narrative Style: The Heart of Storytelling & Why It Also Matters in Memoir by Lucas Walker

Lucas Walker — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:16:10 +0000

Appreciate the step-by-step breakdown. Very beginner friendly.

Comment on Chasing AI Rainbows & Fool’s Gold: Real Writers Know How to DIG by Philip Loyd

Philip Loyd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:35:28 +0000

Real writers! Yes! You nailed it! REAL WRITERS MARKET

Comment on If AI Loves Your Writing, Be Very VERY Worried by Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:52:46 +0000

There is something deeply insulting about a toaster-brained algorithm loving your prose. If the machine thinks it is great, it probably means you used so many predictable tropes that it could map out your entire plot before chapter three. Have you ever caught yourself unconsciously writing exactly what the bot wants just to see the green checkmark?

Comment on Why Americans Measure in Football Fields & Likely Always Will by DJ Austin

DJ Austin — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:39:36 +0000

The MAIN problem with the metric system is that it’s based on TEN, which is ONLY divisible by TWO and FIVE. We should actually be using a base TWELVE system, which is divisible by TWO, THREE, FOUR, and SIX. There are a great many measurements which are base twelve already and will NEVER be based on division by five (division by two already works in a base twelve system). Try to buy a five-pack of beer, or pack several ten-packs of eggs on a pallet, or explain how long a quarter-hour (fifteen minutes) would be in a twenty hour day. I’m all for eliminating the metric system entirely, and believe that in a thousand years it’ll be a curiosity of history.
By the way, counting by twelve is actually EASIER than counting by ten. If you use your thumb for a marker, touch in turn each of the three segments of your four fingers to count to twelve, then use the other hand to count the twelves. Two hands, twelve dozen (144 in base ten). Base ten? Five fingers x two hands, THAT’S IT!

Comment on Chasing AI Rainbows & Fool’s Gold: Real Writers Know How to DIG by Kristen Lamb

Kristen Lamb — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:58:58 +0000

In reply to Rachel Thompson. I use AI to check for typos, grammar glitches, etc. I think that is a great use for AI (and yes, spellcheck and Grammarly and all that count as AI).

Comment on Chasing AI Rainbows & Fool’s Gold: Real Writers Know How to DIG by Kristen Lamb

Kristen Lamb — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:57:32 +0000

In reply to Jane McBay.

And I HATE that! Because it makes everyone suspicious of creatives. The frigging EM DASH is a great example. Go look through my posts. I have almost 20 years of articles on-line and you can see I LOVE the em dash…but so does AI. Now, every time someone sees an EM DASH, they roll their eyes and go, “Must be AI” OR they are at least suspicious.

We have enough BS that rips people out of the fictive dream without this nonsense.

Comment on Chasing AI Rainbows & Fool’s Gold: Real Writers Know How to DIG by Kristen Lamb

Kristen Lamb — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:55:08 +0000

In reply to merrymuhsman.

GURL! If you lived next door we’d get nothing done, LOL! Or we would just have the most AWESOME writing group…ever! Yeah I use it for that and, as you know, I will feed work through to look for typos, grammar, repetitive words and any obvious problems…but I FIX THOSE.

And thanks for the confidence boost. I was worried no one really wanted to hear anything more about AI.

Comment on Chasing AI Rainbows & Fool’s Gold: Real Writers Know How to DIG by curt wendelboe

curt wendelboe — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:23:29 +0000

AI in the writing context is evil. It has revolutionized many aspects of our lives–medicine, the military, transportation–but witting isn’t one of them. With any luck someone will come up with a bad ass way to spot and discard writing developed through AI. Excellent article, and I am glad someone folks are sounding the alarm before we can’t put the genie back in the bottle (to use a non-AI cliche.)

Comment on Chasing AI Rainbows & Fool’s Gold: Real Writers Know How to DIG by merrymuhsman

merrymuhsman — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:10:27 +0000

I used AI at work. I started a new job after being laid off from my old job after 27 years, and I didn’t trust my marketing writing skills. They were pretty rusty. I found that AI was a good tool for giving me ideas. It would spit out options, and I’d take those options and make them my own. Gradually, I gained my confidence and skills back, and now I rarely use AI. I did find that I felt guilty, and even more of an imposter. When I stopped using AI, that feeling went away, too.

I did find that it helped me with plot ideas, but I’m careful to make the plot my own. If I lived next door to Kristen Lamb, I’d just come over, sit around the table and plot a novel in an hour. Really… who needs AI when you have Kristen1

Comment on Chasing AI Rainbows & Fool’s Gold: Real Writers Know How to DIG by Lora

Lora — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:43:39 +0000

In reply to Rachel Thompson. Assistive AI can be helpful. It's just like asking someone nearby, "How do you spell thorough?" Or looking up a word in the dictionary. I learned at two to recognize words by sight as well, especially since I have synesthesia. I can typically tell if a word is spelled right because of the "colors" in it. The main problem with AI is that people ask it to write something, quote it, and don't use their own imagination to write. That's Generative AI. It generates all the text (or art or music) and people put their name on it.