Before AI, skill and talent aside:
—If a writer was lucky, they might occasionally manage to sell their fiction to markets that would commission an illustration. You had no control over that illustration.
—If a writer was exceedingly lucky, they might land a publisher who actually worked with them on editing their work to improve it, instead of just rejecting it outright for its flaws.
—If a writer pulled off the luck-equivalent of winning the lottery, their work might get made into a movie. Not only would you have no control over how the movie was done, many successful writers were famously unhappy with the results.
With AI:
—Writers can illustrate their work to their hearts’ content.
—Writers can effectively edit their own work.
—And it won’t be long before writers can make their own movies, no longer dependent on inaccessibly massive budgets, huge teams, and interfering executives.
And in the mean time, if you’re so inclined, it’s really fun to turn your fiction into musical concept albums.