Rewriting Creativity: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Creative Writing and Narrative Construction

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed classic concepts of authorship, creativity, and storytelling through its incorporation into creative writing. The research is critically oriented to explore how the AI-generated text has influenced narrative structures and creative processes by comparing AI-generated and human-written narrative in a comparative approach. The research, based on posthumanism, narrative theory and computational creativity, analyzes the variations in coherence, novelty, emotional richness, and stylistic performance. The set of data will include ten short stories (five created by AI and five by humans), and those will be analyzed in the framework of thematic and stylistic analysis. Results indicate that AI exhibits structural coherence and genre flexibility to the greatest extent, whereas it lacks the experience and emotional depth that human writing has. With the advent of human-AI co-creativity, however, the paradigm of AI as a collaborative agent may shift away from the role of a substitution of the human authors. The research adds value to theoretical arguments by re-inventing the idea of creativity as a distributed process among human and non-human agents. It also notes implications in the pedagogy of writing, digital humanities and ethics in the AI-assisted authorship. The study concludes that AI is not reducing creativity but modifying its modes of production, and that the narrative theory needs to be re-examined in the digital era.