CTRL+ALT+DEL, AI Edition: What’s Useful, What’s Trash

🧠 This Week: The AI Tools Writers Actually Use (and What’s Overhyped)

AI isn’t coming for your book.
But it is coming for your excuses.

Every platform is throwing new AI tools at writers with “magic” rewriting buttons, idea generators, grammar whips. And honestly? Most of them are ✨ fine ✨ but not life-changing.

So what’s worth paying attention to right now? And what’s just smoke and mirrors?

Let’s break it down:

⚡️ 3 Writing Tools That Actually Help

🛠 ChatGPT + a human brain
Still the most flexible tool for idea generation, outlining, and rewording.
But remember: it’s a mirror, not a muse. The weirder your input, the better your results.

🛠 Lex.page
Clean, distraction-free writing meets “Command + AI” features like summarizing, expanding, and even generating headlines. It’s giving Google Docs... but with ambition.

🛠 SudoWrite
More playful and fiction-focused. It doesn’t always get your tone, but it will help you break a scene, reframe dialogue, or generate “what if” options when you’re stuck.

❌ Overhyped Right Now

🚫 “AI voice” writing tools for blogs
They all kind of sound the same. Slick. Safe. Slightly sleep-inducing.
Your unique tone is your unfair advantage — don’t hand it over to a tone-flattening robot.

🚫 Auto-rewriting tools that promise “better engagement”
Often just swap strong sentences for vague ones. You don’t need engagement bait. You need clarity and personality.

🔍 This Week on the Blog

🌀 CTRL+ALT+DEL #2
A spiraling personal update on label chaos, horror movies, and the small wins that kept me writing anyway.
👉 Read it here

✍️ The Writing Class That Actually Helps You Write
A no-fluff breakdown of 5 courses worth your time (and the one I quietly removed).
👉 Read the full post

💬 One Last Thought

The writers who’ll thrive in an AI-saturated world?
The ones who keep their voice, curate their tools, and write like only they can.

Let the robots help you move faster.
But don’t let them steal your weird.

Until next week,
—Em