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Is The California AI Fair Use’ Ruling A New Bright Line?
(Beth Turnage Blog) We Now Have a Legal Definition A federal judge in California has handed down a ruling that reshapes our understanding of AI and writing. In Bartz v. Anthropic, Judge William Alsup declared that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train its AI model, Claude, was “fair use”—essentially giving AI companies the…
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Is Publishing Utilizing AI To Weed Out Your Manuscript?
(Beth Turnage) Is AI Reading Your Manuscript Before Your Agent Does? There’s a quiet shift happening in publishing—and many authors don’t know about it yet. We’ve been warned not to AI to write your novels. Don’t taint your creative work with any whiff of AI. And sure, that’s solid advice if we’re talking about…
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Multi-Genre Author: Liability or Secret Weapon?
(Beth Turnage) Is Being a Multi-Genre Author A Sales Pitch Gone Wrong or A Secret Weapon? So I sent you a query, and you decided to check out my socials, and you landed on my page and you go, what’s this? Why is there all this science fiction here? Well, I’m a multi-genre writer.…
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Arekan’s Blog: Not Another Feline Overlord
(Arekan’s Blog) Arekan: Scribe, what is THAT doing here? Beth: (Innocently): What? Arekan: Don’t give me “what.” After three years of blissful peace, the brown cat returned. What? It couldn’t find another sucker to feed it, so it came back to you? Beth: You are confused. Arekan: I have never been, or ever, especially…
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An Author Interview With Kelleen Rynin
(Beth Turnage) I recently took a writer’s workshop, Young Adult Novel Writing with Emily Colin at Authors Publish. One of the exercises was to write an interview with your character. Since I’m working on Master’s License, I chose 14-year-old Kelleen Rynin, the protagonist of the story, which was very brave of me. I’d never…
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Kickstart Your #Writing Using #AI—Number 5: Analyze Your Story Telling Effectiveness
When you are pecking at your keyboard in the wee hours of the morning, you wonder if what you’re writing is any good. Even I, who have worked as a ghostwriter for nine and half years question if what I’m, churning out crafting will entertain readers. Many of us turn to Beta readers for…
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Kickstart Your #Writing Using #AI—Number 5: Analyze Your Story Telling Effectiveness
When you are pecking at your keyboard in the wee hours of the morning, you wonder if what you’re writing is any good. Even I, who have worked as a ghostwriter for nine and half years question if what I’m, churning out crafting will entertain readers. Many of us turn to Beta readers for…
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Kick Start Your #Writing Using AI: #4 Summarize Your Chapter
You’ve written an outline, and things are going great. You are cooking on all burners and the story is flowing—until it isn’t. Maybe, you got a brilliant idea during a chapter, or a character gets rowdy, and takes it over, or—you know how it is. The chapter that is now bears little resemblance to…
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Kick Start Your #Writing Using AI: #4 Summarize Your Chapter
You’ve written an outline, and things are going great. You are cooking on all burners and the story is flowing—until it isn’t. Maybe, you got a brilliant idea during a chapter, or a character gets rowdy, and takes it over, or—you know how it is. The chapter that is now bears little resemblance to…
