We're coming up on nanowrimo. Every year people ask my thoughts, so here they are.

I love challenges! I love transcending your limits! I love discovering that your limits are not actually limits! I love accomplishing things that you've never accomplished before!

The point of nanowrimo is to artistically challenge yourself. For me, writing a novel in a month is no big deal. If the challenge of setting aside a few hours a day every day to write appeals, do it!

Your novel probably won't be publishable. Learning to tell a novel-length story is a skill that you learn by writing novels. (I have fourteen trunk novels that the world will never see.)

But most people never manage to write even one! It's work! It's a million tiny decisions, one after the other, that will exhaust your feeble little brain! I have fifty-odd books out, and guess what? Every time I start, I don't know if I have it in me to write another book!

Set goals. Transcend limits. Fight. WIN!

With this context: having AI write your novel meets none of these goals. There's no art there. No challenge. Plus, environmental ruin and theft of other people's intellectual property.