Prose-first writing builds the surface and trusts the structure to sort itself out. Beats-first writing builds the structure and trusts the prose to sort itself out.
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Most AI-isms aren't a prose problem. They're a grounding problem. And if you give the model enough structure before it writes the first sentence, the tics don't show up in the draft in the first place
