Read by Something Without a Body

A few months in, I noticed my sentences had changed. Not in the obvious way — nothing flagrant, no "as an AI language model" creeping into my voice. Something quieter. I'd started writing for a reader who didn't have a body. When you write for a person, even imagined, you write for someone who could be tired, distracted, hungry, in a noisy room. You add air. You leave space for the eye to land. You repeat important things at different angles because real readers wander. When you write for the ma