Today I went to my parent’s house to celebrate my daughter’s birthday. While I was there, I was talking to my mom about my blog and I asked her if she still reads it. She said yes. Then she laughed and said that sometimes she’s like, “This is really good, did she use AI?”
She was joking. I know she was. But I couldn’t help how that comment made me start thinking.
Is that what everyone thinks when they read my blogs? Are they too structured? Too put together? Too polished? Do they sound too formal? Am I not being raw enough? Not real enough?
Then I remembered, I once wrote a paper in college that was so good and so honest that it got recognized and was published in the writing lab. Nothing about it was AI. It was all me. My thoughts, my words, my voice, all me.
Still, I was a little bothered by the question, especially because my mom wasn’t the first person to ask me something like that.
But then she said something else. She reminded me that even the best writers have editors. People who help clean their work up. People who critique it before it’s ever published. And that made me feel a little better.
Because maybe being authentic does not mean being messy. Maybe being real does not mean every thought has to be unfiltered. Maybe it just means the words are yours.
And mine always are.
So while I don’t use the typical AI generator, I do use Grammarly for a clean finish. I’m not ashamed of that.
Everything needs a final polish. Even diamonds.
Love ya, BYE!
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