Rebecca Thomas

I feel that AI has about as much chance of meaningful storytelling as it has of meaningful teaching, but @emshort 's recent article offers some interesting points to think about.
          
          https://emshort.blog/2019/04/04/can-ai-tell-a-good-story/

Sorry for all the updates this morning, but...there's been stuff going on.
          1. New section and chapter!
          2. I updated the ToC to hopefully be slightly more usable.
          3. Last week, the Supreme Court changed the voluntary nature of copyright registration, so that chapter had to be updated. (I found out yesterday.)
          
          I told y'all copyright is a wacky ride!

Here we are at the end of Fair Use Week, and wouldn't you know...this week's chapter in Copyright for Creatives is an introduction to Fair Use!
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/686631224-copyright-for-creatives-fair-use
          
          For some really great examples of Fair Use in motion, checkout New media Rights on Twitter.
          
          https://twitter.com/NewMediaRights

Hey, y'all! I'm starting a new series today looking at copyright and some of the issues surrounding it: https://www.wattpad.com/story/175009767-copyright-for-creatives 
          
          (I'm actually updating and expanding an old blog series, but it struck me that this information could prove useful to wattpadders, too.)

Do you write #fanfiction, but find yourself thinking it could be fun trying to build your own world? Then definitely check out this class Seanan McGuire will be teaching next month!
          
          http://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/crossing-over-moving-from-fanfic-to-your-own-worlds/

Do you like stories? Of course you do. 
          
          Do you like stories about messing with time? Who doesn't? 
          
          Do you like short stories (we're talking 100 words per story here) about messing with time? 
          
          Then you should totally read Chronos, an anthology that released to Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GCVS4Z9) over the weekend. 
          
          Plus, you get to read my very first published short story "Stopping Time"! And then you can worry about my sanity. (I've given up on that front.)

Chronos, a science fiction anthology centered on themes of time and time travel, is coming out next month. But you can preorder it now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GCVS4Z9
          
          Why should you preorder it? Well, it sounds like a lot of fun...and my story "Stopping Time" is one of the stories included. Get it. Read it. Enjoy it.

For your enjoyment: Hidden Trail now has narration available! https://www.wattpad.com/524733259-hidden-trail

I've been playing with a darker corner of the net...in a less-than-dark way. I don't know how I do that. But come check it out. https://www.wattpad.com/story/141675733

Working on Potted Soil was a bit of an adventure, and I wrote a blog post about it. It seemed like the thing to do. If that cover art hasn't traumatized you as it has me, feel free to read up on how the story came to be: https://veramorstudios.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/potted-soil-finding-the-right-planning-method/