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Originally Posted by rcentros
I don't think "paint-by-number" writing is ever going to work. They've been trying this with "fill-in-the-blanks" writing software for years now. The problem is that writing is not a mechanical process. There's more involved then producing something that "looks" like a book, or a screenplay.
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Most authors I've run into despise grammar checkers.
There's a reason the term "grammar nazis" exist; people want to express their ideas in their own voice, with their own cadences, constructions, and expressions, regardless of what the rules may demand.
"Rules are meant for breaking" is the mantra of most good writers. The trick is knowing when and how. A "writing assistant AI" would go insane trying to reconcile the various styles of different writers, to say nothing of the speech patterns of characters.
Grammar checkers are useful for business or technical writing, where precision and clarity are paramount but for fiction, where mood, tone, and metaphor matter, they are counter-indicated. The more the software tries to do, the less useful it becomes.