Indie Spirits

If you want to achieve something to be proud of, your own accomplishments, then it’s best to be independent. Those who are always under someone’s thumb, dancing to another’s tune, will never get to claim the credit for their own hard work. Of course, there are folks who couldn’t care less. After all, it’s dead easy to strut about in someone else’s feathers. In the writing world, that’s called plagiarism. On Steemit, we make a fuss about it, but offline, we see scientists and ministers getting away with it all the time. So, clearly, it doesn’t matter a jot whether you’ve nicked something or invented it yourself. What counts is whether you’ve got a name (just ask Bill, he knows how to get rich pinching other people’s ideas). And that goes for Steemit, too.

Independent or stuck in someone’s pocket? Being independent (indie’s short for independent, after all) doesn’t matter if all you’re after is a fat stack of cash.

You can see it now with loads of folks who aren’t just writing but publishing, too. It’s all about the money, and as my gran used to say, only the sun rises for free. True? Not for that bloke now running the WEF, apparently.

Is there still a life for the free spirit, the independent writer and publisher? I reckon so, because that little bit of human feeling is sorely missing in most of the stuff you read these days. Now, it’s true that plenty of people never crack open a book or read an article, but if you do, you can spot AI-written text a mile off from something penned by a real person. And it’s rubbish to say that pieces translated by Google or DeepL sound like AI. What most folks forget is that not everyone chats in street slang, there are still people who didn’t skive off school and know a thing or two about language.

The Indie Spirit isn’t daft, especially if you can write and publish with like-minded souls. I’d heartily recommend it to anyone. Not just to line your pockets, but to learn from each other. As for "authors" who hire someone else to write, get AI to generate stories, and churn out five to ten books a day, well, I don’t think much of ’em. They’re not writers in my book. They’ve got no passion for writing; they’re just the end product of a robot doing the work for them.

Cheerio to that!

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