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You're afraid the writing you're building is about to be worth nothing, out-written by a machine.
And for anything that can be averaged from what's already online, it will be, blended into forgettable slop.
But William names five things it can't average: a voice from a lived life, metaphors from a body, rules broken on purpose, writing under real stakes, and the whimsy to follow a thread nowhere useful.
So what's left that's yours alone?
The things that require being alive — your moat.
A voice that emerges from a specific life, metaphors grounded in a body you share with your reader, rules you break on purpose, the depth that comes from writing for readers whose judgment you feel, and the play that lets you wander where the average never goes.
None of it is about out-formaling the machine; it's about doing the human things it can't.