Some evening this term, you might notice that you haven't written your text for today (as I haven't written mine for today as I type this up). It might cross your mind that you could quickly generate a 111-word text using a text-generation program. But if you're really out of ideas, or if you're really too tired, just skip a day instead. After all, this course is not about effective uses of so-called AI; it's about developing your own writing skills. And such programs are also notoriously bad at counting (as in the question of how many Rs are in "strawberry"), so they might not get the word count right anyway. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 26 February 2025, a text addressed to the students in my class "111 Words a Day: A Writing Project")
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