Hollis Robbins (@Anecdotal) on Substack

So good, Brandon. I especially like this: "A scene is not life. A scene is an orderly storytelling unit, set off by the filmic narrator or the editors, the person in charge of structuring the montage. So that while it might seem like life, it is actually highly ordered, designed to elicit a particular response or to achieve some greater narrative end.." I will add -- because I'm focused on the effects of AI -- that writers should take note that the trends you are describing are those that AI can do just as well as a human author and that writers who want to be read by humans (into posterity) ought to spend time being human, looking into their soul.