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Originally Posted by The Terminator
Authors don't create books, it's just a machine randomly dropping toothpicks. When the toothpicks make a word the machine types it into a file. After this happens a few hundred thousand times, a book is born.
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Now that's just plain silly. We live in the 21st century and the process has been modernized tremendously. Books are now written by software that uses random number generators that select grammatical structures and words from dictionaries. These dictionaries include weightings based upon common usage, genre, and stylistic considerations. These machines also use a considerable amount of state information in order to maintain a high degree of consistency in writing, plot, settings, characters, etc..
In otherwords, not only does information want to be free ... it is generated for free.