I had written a story using AI - chatgpt and It charted in top 10 india

as The title says .

last year(2025) during feb . I've started a story . it was about 2nd chance romance desi - college. it was a very common tipic ( won't disclose the plot obviously )

I've uploaded 6 chapter and it blew up in March. like blew up due the editors I asked on yt to make edits of my book . it was in top 10 for more than 2 weeks . i was happy . my insta didn't blew up though. i Don't have any followers in insta .

then my stupid ass thought it would be fantastic to use AI and make the upcoming chapters 5k+ words instead of the 2.5-3k words I was writing . I thought that time , it’s okay to use AI as I'm not copying anyone's work . the plot is mine . AI would only describe the things I'm telling.

have uploaded the AI written one . Basically the chapter's important hooks were written by me , the characters emotions etc . and the non important ones , the filler parts were written by AI . like that I was able to write one chapter in one day . whereas before it used took me 4-5 days for one chapter ( yes I'm a very slow writer . i like to take time while writing emotions) .

a lil backstory about me . I can write story with decent grammer . I'm not saying I'm pro at writing . but I'm decent. my writing does contain emotions ( as I used write ff oneshot from 2022) . I've started this story without indulging the audience from ff . so , I got a boost at my confidence that people would read my story even if it's not ff . oh and I'm not a teen . I'm in my early 20s. I write stories with exploring emotions and slowburn,

then for one month I couldn't open wattpad due the jio fisaco ( i hope you guys remember) . the views drop a lil bit . but still I got good ones . so total I got 400k views uploading 13 chapters .

but then The story started to feel like a burden . I couldn't understand why . i would every month say I would upload new chapter . as the whole story plot scenes were always in my mind . I knew what to do with the story before I uploaded it on wattpad.

I never understood why I keep delaying writing the chapters when I have AI to finish with it . I thought that it's because of decreasing views . Or I'm into writing other stories ( yes I've more ideas which would make couple of series) or It's because I keep seeing authors with big insta followers and get jealous/demotivated .

my age was a factor too . I thought I'm too old for wattpad. and obviously my personal life had an impact too . these kept happening from june 2025 to now .

then this month ( feb 2026 , basically yesterday) I realized why I couldn't write next chapters . it's because of AI usage. My story did not felt like mine anymore. it felt it's lacking the soul of the characters. the characters just exist in paper . Idk how to explain it to you guys . The story never felt same like my previous oneshot stories. and the feeling was bad . very bad .

I've learned my lesson. not gonna use AI anymore. the work does not feel like own . doesn't matter if the plot if yours only .

thank you for reading this (if anyone had read )

i just needed to vent it out somewhere. that's why wrote it .