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Perspectives commentary highlights the value of emotional discomfort in writing, suggesting strategies to confront shame rather than outsourcing expression to generative artificial intelligence.
In an age of LLM‐powered AI, skipping past the painful feelings writing can engender is more tempting than ever before. But painful emotions are both meaningful and valuable for the writing process. Accordingly, I offer concrete strategies for writing with and past shame rather than against it.
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