I use Grammarly to check for errors I make during writing more serious stuff (English is not my native language), but any suggestion it sends in my way changes the tone of the text so much that it sounds like it's written by a PR agency with a fake, forced attitude; sounding bland and colorless.

So no, thank you. Correct my textbook punctuation mistakes, and leave my wordy and "not positive enough" sentences to me.

I'm getting increasingly irritated by Grammarly's attempts to boringify my writing. I've even considered doing away with it entirely, even if it means I have to do my own spell-checking.

I'm working on a dystopia where the resistance is using text-in-text steganography to coordinate, so unpolished communication is flagged for extra scrutiny because all those stylistic choices might be hiding something.

Ever read The Freeze Frame Revolution?

Though, its stenography is a bit more obvious given the "you've got to be able to read it".

The kindle version of the book starts with https://imgur.com/uIBjwlQ

This would give you the opportunity to have another ending to the book.

I love The Freeze Frame Revolution, and yeah I was planning on doing something similar. I figure I'll publish an app that OCRs the text and displays the hidden message, and make the book read differently based on whether you can or can't see the messages.

Then readers can use the app for hiding their own messages to each other also.

(realizing this is veering off into tangents of tangents)...

An idea I discussed with someone tossing story ideas about was regarding the reliable / unreliable narrator for a mystery mixed in with being able to view (lock a display screen to a geographic location, got a knob to rewind / fast forward time (up to the present)) immutable past events who finds something amiss. Upon the "somethings not right..." the narrator reviews their own events of the previous day and finds that the events don't match their memory. Is the narrator reliable? Is the narrator that is questioning their own reliability the narrator or an external agent trying to cast doubt on the reliability of the actual narrator?

That does sound interesting--to give the reader a bit more tooling to decide whether they're being lied to and by whom. You might enjoy The Quantum Thief, which isn't published in a such a unique way, but which has fun a story that would fit right in.

Your thoughts will be replaced by <thoughts></thoughts>. For your convenience.

What a strange complaint about AI. This already happens and happened without AI.

>You have an individual and unique way of speaking and writing? You're going to wish your e-mail finds people well, corporate-monkey.

Is it really so strange to complain about the nudging towards the phenomenon of which you speak?

Newspeak.

This 100%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV0CtZga7qM

Wtf is that comment section

I wouldn't say the author's style is unique or individual in any way. Every single tumblr blog sounds like that. You could easily create a "make edgy" function that would feed your formal writings and turn them into that kind of prose. Is it better or worth than "polish"? There's no substantial difference. The "polish" version sure sounds less exhausting than the original.

your writing style doesn't have to be "unique" or "original" to be yours

It's personal. "Unique" and "individual" might not be the best words to describe it, but it's clearly a style they've intentionally adopted. They appear to have been quite successful for it to!