Non-Artificial Intelligence Writing.

2026-09-12

The Author Before the AI.

It is not difficult to write without using an Artificial Intelligence Agent.

In fact, it can be much more pleasing and satisfying.

The only downside is that this method is much more time-consuming.

I revert to Non-Artificial Intelligence writing once in a while, for a number of reasons.

And tonight, I am doing exactly that.

Therapeutic Effect.

It is calming and rejuvenating to do free-style writing.

I was sitting on the couch under the carport, looking at the sky, when I noticed a bright star.

Or so I thought.

After looking at it more closely, I realised that I was looking at Venus.

Apparently, I can still see it with my naked eye.

So there I sat, looking at Venus and allowing my thoughts to wander.

Free-style writing takes time, and that is part of what makes it relaxing.

There is no pressure to produce something immediately.

You simply write.

And while you write, ideas begin to appear.

Requires One’s Focus.

Free-style writing is also very good for sharpening one’s focus.

It is a good exercise to practise regularly.

You basically write whatever comes to mind, without thinking too hard about it.

You allow your thoughts to flow from your mind straight into that keyboard.

The keyboard that is mightier than the pen.

Although this sounds simplistic, perhaps for me it is.

But it has taken me years of practice to get this down pat.

I have learned to sit down and simply start writing.

I don’t necessarily know where the writing is going to take me.

I just let it go.

Provides Good Source Material.

Writing in this way can flush out some amazing material.

Material that can then be effectively fed into an Artificial Intelligence Agent.

And sometimes, it produces amazing results.

That will be the ultimate test of tonight’s experiment.

I started writing about not using AI.

I was sitting under the carport.

I was looking at the sky.

I was thinking about Venus.

And somehow, all of that has now become source material.

That is exactly what free-style writing is supposed to do.

It Helps an Author Rediscover Themself.

I have been under a heck of a lot of pressure as of late.

This unrestricted form of writing helps me unload a lot of pent-up anger.

It releases frustration.

It helps me, so to say, reboot my mind.

It is my way of dealing with writer’s block.

Not that I suffer from that malady very often.

My problem is almost the opposite.

I have an overproductive mind.

There are so many ideas running through my head that a lot of them get lost in the pipeline, so to speak.

Free-style writing gives some of those ideas somewhere to go.

I don’t have to organise them first.

I don’t have to decide whether they are good ideas.

I don’t even have to know whether they will become an article.

I just write them down.

Helps Memory Recall.

Often there are things that I think about and then forget.

Writing like this helps bring those ideas back to the foreground.

It is almost as if the act of writing shakes loose something that was hiding in the back of my mind.

Like my affectionate names for Taylor, our cat.

Monkey D. Taylor.

The protagonist of Cyber Cat.

PlebWare’s mascot.

And Captain Gemini’s sidekick.

I had not necessarily sat down tonight intending to think about any of that.

But there it is.

The thought came.

I wrote it down.

And now I remember it.

The Human Still Has to Bring Something to the Table.

This is where I think the relationship between an author and Artificial Intelligence becomes interesting.

AI can take raw material and help shape it.

It can help organise thoughts.

It can help find connections between ideas.

It can help turn a collection of rough thoughts into something readable.

But the raw thoughts have to come from somewhere.

Tonight, they came from me.

They came while I was sitting under a carport, staring at Venus and allowing my mind to wander.

That is something I don’t want to lose.

Artificial Intelligence should not replace the author’s mind.

It should be another tool in the author’s workshop.

The Ultimate Test.

So here is the funny part.

I deliberately wrote this article without Artificial Intelligence.

I simply allowed my thoughts to flow onto the keyboard.

And now I have handed those thoughts to an Artificial Intelligence Agent and asked it to see what can be made from them.

That is tonight’s experiment.

If this becomes a useful PlebWare article, then the experiment has worked.

Not because AI wrote the ideas.

The ideas were already here.

AI merely helped me shape what I had already brought to the table.

Perhaps that is the real lesson.

Sometimes an author needs to switch the machine off.

Sit down.

Look at the sky.

Think.

Write.

Remember.

And allow the mind to wander wherever it wants to go.

Because sometimes the most useful thing an Artificial Intelligence Agent can receive…

is something that the human author wrote first.