Adrian Tchaikovsky is a serial award winner in traditional publishing science fiction circles, and in the middle of an anti-AI rant on BlueSky, he brought up the interesting point that ideas are not the hard part for most writers.
Craft is indeed lacking, but good ideas are also lacking (or smothered under an oppressive blanket of wokeness and/or risk aversion).
Craft is indeed lacking, but good ideas are also lacking (or smothered under an oppressive blanket of wokeness and/or risk aversion).