Before A.I, There Was 'What If?'

'What if we could fly? What if there was a school of wizardry? What if time travel was possible? What if we turn this into a mockumentary? What if she wore red boots?'

This isn't the usual 'Oh no A.I!' rant. This is nostalgia. This is me looking back at my golden hour to reminisce how a simple 'What if?' would change how I saw something. How it created something out of thin air. That is what drove me towards writing - the ability to create something out of thin air.

I'll pull this out of my brain. I'll mesh it into my book. I'll create something and it'll be mine. Mine to cherish and share. I'll pass it on to my readers, hoping they'll enjoy it.

Isn't that what creatives enjoy? The joy of creation. Now we play a game of 'Taming the Shrew' where unless we harness the power of A.I, wield it to our will. there's no survival.

Just a few years ago, you would show up to your blank page/screen, religiously. Sit in patience. Enter a state of flow. Invest in your thoughts. Invest in your stream of 'What ifs' until the universe/brain (if you're not spiritual) grants you, nay, pours an idea onto your lap. You take that to your imagination. You create. That was your prompt. Now imagine that life feels dystopian.

I have no conclusion for this today. I could go on like this. Forever. I would go on writing every single thought enters my brain. For some reason, this topic found me. So I dwelled on it. I said to myself: What if?

And it happened. I wrote. I followed my thought and wrote down what I felt. And you're reading it now. That's how creativity worked. Before A.I there was 'What if?'