alt:
"Panel one -
Title: The optimistic novelist
Image: a writer at a desk saying “Hooray! I've written half of my novel!!”
Panel two -
Title: The pessimistic novelist
Image: a writer at a desk saying “Damn! I've still got to write half of my novel!”
Panel three -
Title: The pessimistic novelist, continued
Image: The writer from the previous panel continues, more sadly:
“And what I have written is terrible!”
Then, somewhat desperately:
“And I've told my editor that I'll have a finished draft by the end of the week!
And what's the point of writing anything anyway when it will only get lost in a vast ocean of artificially generated content spewed out by the same corporations that are ruining our planet!”
Final panel -
title: The pessimistic novelist, the next day
Image: the writer looks over their work and says “Hmm. Perhaps it's not quite that bad.”"