Elements of Story

Hi HN,

To my pleasant surprise, I’ve been noticing a sort of revival of posts related to writing here and on the web at large. This is either due to my own return to the craft of writing, or it really is a broader trend of AI power users realizing that AI is really, really bad at generating good prose.

Regardless, I’ve found AI to be a useful tool for filling in the gaps in creative writing craft and terminology that I never learned in school. I am an engineer by training and trade, so most of the writing “skills” we learned were for technical writing, lab reports, and the like.

This site was also heavily inspired by the “Laws of Software Engineering” post that was quite popular a few weeks back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847179