How to Kill a Writer
Evangelize artificial intelligence and virtual reality.
Eliminate DEI initiatives across the post-secondary sector to create barriers to accessing education and skill development.
Institute mass censorship to suppress the work and ideas of those who challenge the prevailing narrative.
Advocate for the broad dissemination of generative artificial intelligence to render creativity obsolete and promote generic, “white bread” writing.
Sow division to create distrust, encouraging the perpetuation of single-source media and confirmation biases.
Create the conditions for economic instability making it difficult for small presses to function operationally, thus reducing submission and publication opportunities, and income potential.
Abolish funding for the arts, severely limiting professional development opportunities and project grants, which then limits publication opportunities and income potential.
Promote capitalism so government presses hold the monopoly on the publishing industry, limiting publication opportunities and income potential.
Eliminate English and creative writing programs from colleges and universities; who needs them when you have generative artificial intelligence?
About the author:
Self-proclaimed logophile and devourer of books, Ashley Holloway is a nurse, writer, and editor who teaches writing classes and healthcare leadership in Calgary, AB. She writes in a variety of genres with work appearing across Canada and the US and has co-authored three books. Ashley serves as Editorial Director at Unleash Creatives and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
