Advocates

Author Advocates

Our Author Advocates are accomplished writers who stand firmly behind the belief that authentic fiction springs from human imagination and experience. These published authors have each dedicated themselves to crafting stories born from their own creativity, embracing the uniquely human journey of writing fiction without AI generation. They champion our mission not just in principle, but through their own literary practice—creating works that reflect the depth, nuance, and originality that can only emerge from a human mind. By lending their voices to the Human Generated Writers Association, these advocates affirm the enduring value of genuine human expression in an increasingly automated world, inspiring both established and emerging writers to honor the authentically creative process.

 

 

Author Advocates at HGWA

 

 

 

 

 

 

C.M. Curtis is a #1 Best Selling Author who has published 13 fiction books. 

Undoubtedly the greatest invention of the human race; the one that is most versatile and most used—albeit, not always for good—is language. Language is made of words, words are made of sounds, combinations of words convey ideas. Written language is made of symbols, sometimes lines and shapes in different combinations; sometimes pictures. No other invention has had so many uses, so vast an impact on the human race. It affects everything we do, everything we are.

Cave drawings were a form of communication using pictures. A drawing that accurately depicts a bison, tells the person looking at it that it represents a bison. In representing a bison here, I didn’t make a drawing. I used the combination of symbols (letters) that we have devised to represent the word bison. When you saw the word bison in the preceding sentences, you involuntarily pictured a bison in your mind. That’s how writing works.

But if I were to write a story about a bison I would have to convey more than just individual images to your mind. I would use word combinations to impart complex ideas, events, things. And if I did it well enough, I could use those words to evoke feelings in you, perhaps even awaken memories and thoughts of your own. I might make you think you smelled or tasted something you have smelled or tasted in the past. I would create a mental scenario by tapping into your own vast warehouse of stored experiences and mental images. I might even make you laugh or cry, feel grief or joy, anger or love. All by the use of symbols. 

One of the distinguishing characteristics of  modern humans is impatience. We get upset if our plane is delayed in taking us on a one hour flight over a distance that in former times took months to cross. We complain if our computer takes an extra ten seconds to load information that just a few years ago would have taken hours, months; perhaps even years to access. We grumble when the hot water takes too long to arrive in the faucet when in the past, humans had to cut wood, build a fire, draw water from a well or stream, carry it, pour it into a container, set the container on the fire and wait for it to heat up.

We eat fast food, drive on freeways, cook in microwaves, call all over the world on cell phones, order online and get it the next day. We want things fast. We want them now. And we don’t want to expend a lot of effort to get them.

Enter, artificial intelligence.

I have written 15 books. No one knows better than I that writing is an arduous process. It takes a great deal of time, effort and thought. It takes a lot of me! I do not deny that it would be nice to simply pop a few ideas into the verbal microwave, push a couple of buttons and wait for the ding. Voila! My latest book.

But would it really be mine? Not even close. Nor would I be able to truthfully call myself a writer. And though I may put my name on the book, there would be nothing of me in it except my name. And, worse, there would be nothing of intellectual integrity in me. 
Over the years, I have met many people who told me they had a great idea for a book. Of those people only a small handful ever even started their book and, to my knowledge, none of them finished it—probably because they quickly learned it’s not easy. Every writer knows that the first and most important requirement to being a good writer is to have been—and constantly be—a reader. There’s no way around that. No matter how much inborn talent you have, you will not be able to develop and exercise that talent effectively without having read thousands of books. And, that’s only part of your training. Practice is required too, and study and research. Needless to say, it takes years.

Imagine a young person who has never played much basketball; never really practiced, never had any coaching; trying out for a spot on a professional basketball team. Writing is no different. Not only do you have to read and read and read, and write and write and write, but you have to think and you have to feel. Only then will your writing be a part of you. Only then will your soul be revealed in your writing—and that’s the last requirement: True writing comes from the soul. 

Artificial intelligence has no soul, therefore, a story written by artificial intelligence will be soulless and mechanical. 

Maya Angelou, said, "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." 

Artificial intelligence doesn’t care.