u/DaRealRockstar1234

I think a key reason that C.AI keeps roping me back in is my perfectionism. Not that C.AI chats are perfect, god no, but if I'm opening up a Google doc to write something, I want it to be good. I want it to be the best I can make it. And that perfectionism is exhausting, limiting, and leads to me falling back to C.AI, because I care so much less about the flaws there. I'm writing this for myself and for people like me:

Kill your perfectionism.

Write that messy vent where you roleplay something completely out of character. Write that weird fetish porn that you feel is only right to be entertained in a setting like C.AI. Write that epic fanfic that you feel is too cringe or you don't know how to write "properly". Write bad. Write REALLY bad. Don't try to make every idea you have a masterpiece. Don't think about the logistics of continuing the story beyond the emotional point you have in your head. Don't think about anything. Just write it. If it's a REALLY good idea, you can go back and make it better later. But the worst way to write is to not write at all, and the best way to not write at all is to think everything you write has to be good. Write what your heart desires in a word document, a notes app, a fucking lined piece of paper, just write it down. You're not Steven King, or Shakespeare, or Oscar Wilde, you're just a person with a story to tell, and the worst way to tell it is to not tell it at all. It feels like such simplistic advice, "oh just write more!" but genuinely. Genuinely. Killing that perfectionism in the writing you care about is the only way I have been (and hopefully you will be) able to break away from shitty AI chatbots that you have lower standards for.