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This is Cinco de Mayo, the 5th of May. No tacos or celebrations. I have a bad cold and ran into a problem with my Plotto plot. I have 33,000 words so far so I hope to finish. I learned a lot from Lin-Manuel Miranda, a rich dude growing up, dare I say? Nannies in his vocab. I also learned to approach the text in 20th grade classroom from the process of the author. What a revelation. I found advice on writing from Ray Bradbury whose Fahrenheit 451 we just finished reading. He said write a short story a week and at the end of a year you will have 52 short stories and you will see that it’s impossible that all 52 will be bad stories!

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I’m posting this May 1! No. No, no, it’s April 30. I gained a day! A big win I’d say! But this is my new week and new assignments for Creativity.

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I’ve been swamped but still encouraged by videos I found from writers on their method for last Friday’s assignment. Students need to see the process of the authors or creators. This went on the form much of which I lost because I thought the form was a google doc and didn’t press “save” so there was hell to pay when I lost part of the form I filled out more for my own benefit. Check out Ray Bradbury’s writing tips on YouTube.

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I’m posting this May 1! No today is still April 30. Got ahead of myself! This was the week of my garage mishap and the total or quasi abandonment of my cat project. Still I worked on my Plotto story and blocked a few more chapters.

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WALKING ON THE EDGE OF CHAOS

From Innovatorsmag.com

“Until recently the field of psychology has viewed creativity as a cognitive process centered on generating new ideas. The body was viewed as passive responder rather than an active generator of new ideas.  Over the past few decades, embodiment theory has had a significant impact on creativity research. ….

“Embodiment theory is based on the observation that certain emotions have physical sensation associated with them, such as tightness in the chest when we feel anxious. Embodiment involves connecting to our bodies in a way that allows us to feel grounded, centered and fully engaged in the present moment – which is a trigger for creative flow.”

Me: this is like empiricism. We learn through our 5 senses. Empirically is experience. I don’t know if it’s true that researchers see creativity as purely cognitive? I didn’t get that from Starko or just didn’t think about it.

Another thing I forgot in my definition for creative individuals project is problem solving and curiosity. Curiosity and sensual experience are two things AI doesn’t have.

Adaptability and creativity are key in this age of AI. Is AI stealing our creativity?

Tim Brunel 2017 essay online says “Seth Godin says, “The question each of us has to ask is simple (but difficult): What can I become quite good at that’s really difficult for a computer to do one day soon? How can I become so resilient, so human and such a linchpin that shifts in technology won’t be able to catch up?”

And that “As Grudin puts it in The Grace of Great Things, “One must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally fit, agree or make sense. …To think creatively is to walk at the edge of chaos. In thinking the original, we risk thinking the ridiculous.”

From ISSUES National Academy of Sciences online

“Ownership Dilemmas in an Age of Creative Machines”

“it may be inevitable that smart machines will become central to creativity and innovation, activities often considered to represent the highest form of human intelligence”

I’m quoting all this

“AI technologies challenge the fundamental building blocks of existing intellectual property (IP) laws and institutions, which are misaligned with AI-driven innovation on multiple fronts. IP rights are intended to provide incentives for innovators to engage in creative endeavors and to bring the fruits of these activities to society, while simultaneously balancing the need for market competition and dissemination of new knowledge. IP laws put human inventors and creators at the center of the creative process, reflecting deep-rooted assumptions about the inherent humanness of creativity. These assumptions have now been overturned by advances in computational creativity.”

“what GANs are made for. Generative Adversarial Networks belong to the set of generative models. It means that they are able to produce / to generate (we’ll see how) new content”

It starts with generating random variables. Computers are deterministic so true randomness may not be possible.

GANS generate very complex random variables. “Once the architecture of the network has been designed, we still need to train it. In the next two sections, we will discuss two ways to train these generative networks, including the idea of adversarial training behind GANs!”

COPYRIGHT

According to the US Copyright Office, a work must be the product of “human authorship” to be entitled to copyright protection. Similarly, US patent law requires that each patent application should name the inventor, defined as “a person [who] contributes to the conception of the invention.” These provisions would appear to constrain the available options for IP protection of machine-created innovations.

The issue, at least for the foreseeable future, is not that AI deserves some kind of moral personhood. Instead, the question is how one assigns ownership over AI-created (or cocreated) artifacts in such a way as to strike the right balance in IP policy between private innovation incentives and social knowledge recombination.

You can let it fall in public domain OR

..,purely computer-generated creative artifacts are a myth. When it comes to IP protections, they argue, the work-for-hire doctrine, in which an employer owns all rights to the creation of an employee, can be used to assign copyright to owners for creative works produced by AI

IP-negative spaces, wherein IP rights have traditionally been very limited or absent. These spaces include fields such as fashion, cuisine, tattoo artistry, graffiti, financial services, and sports.

Innovators in IP-negative spaces may also derive value and motivation from the fame and respect of peers, which may offset (to a degree) their need for financial rewards.

Moreover, due to these reputational benefits, and simply by being first to market, these innovators may earn returns from their innovations even without strong IP rights. For example, fashion designers might rely on their personal reputations as innovators and trendsetters to run profitable businesses, despite having no formal IP protection for their innovative designs.

Possibly…robots should be treated simply as other technological tools that might enhance creativity and productivity (e.g., software packages or printers). The IP resulting from AI would then vest in the human coinventors or collaborators of creative machines (semiautonomous)

appropriate for settings in which the role of these collaborating humans is quite significant, particularly in adapting the creative output to the tastes and values of the intended audience and when the context itself is one that is not characterized by significant IP-negative features

To use the example of an AI-produced painting, the algorithm developer and the artist using the AI to create a painting could both be granted IP rights

innovators to co-own the creative output of their AI systems would better calibrate the innovators’ incentives to the ultimate value their products generate. This alignment may be especially valuable when upstream incentives are needed to encourage the development of better computationally creative technologies for a given domain, such as portraiture or musical composition. Such a policy likely will not be appropriate for IP-negative spaces

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Sleepy Saturday. I worked on my Plotto guide short fiction.

AI is predicated on data. It does not have my personal experience. aI could learn by itself the logical rules by which we make decisions. I think it does follow formal logic.

If AI wins, it doesn’t know it won. It doesn’t know what winning is. It doesn’t know what owning an idea and seeing what its fruition means to the creator. It does not know it knows.

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Sad, despite having been able to flesh out a plot from Plotto. William Wallace Cook believes Plotto is a guide to creativity, a method for both putting the genie in the bottle in a way that readers can take it out again. I will type out his theory of creativity, which he explains in his dedication of Plotto.

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Forgot muses yesterday. Was late with assignments. Helped fix my garage door frame. Never turn your steering once you have entered your garage!!! Spring is here with “virgin Spring” lawn flowers that only appear in Spring. Claytonia Virginia. Aren’t they pretty? Take a look at Saturday to see what they look like today! 😢

Beware the amoral scavenger of the past.

The master plot ensnares the protagonist, creating conflict and a situation where decisions must be made and concrete action taken. Ensnarement. Conflict. Action. Beware the amoral scavenger of the past.

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I discovered that plotting requires physicality. Getting down and dirty. Therefore I am ordering the physical Plotto book because it’s impossible to get down with a book on my phone. I have many physical books on 4 of my walls. But my phone holds many more books than are on my walls, which I can access easily. For these advantages I am grateful. However, holding a physical book in my hand and my eyes running across the typeface of the page is a spiritual experience. That’s not why I need physical Plotto though. Together physically we will rearrange the genie to get him back in the bottle.

WELL. The physical book of my ebook is $38. So instead I bought 3 other books nearby on Kindle for .99 cents each. One by the Plotto guy called Fiction Factory. The other by HL Mencken called American Language. Another by Willa Cather called Troll Garden. With social media we now live in Troll gardens of another kind. BTW the Plotto guy is John Milton Edwards AKA William Wallace Cook.

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Visited my dog at the Animal Village on Saturday. I’m writing this Wednesday. Someone adopted her. This is the dog standing on my deck watching me wash clothes — thought I could copy the pic but guess not.

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Great! New post; new drawing. My X's on this one don't all look honest. Some look downright suspicious. But they all look hopeful! We will see how this goes. I feel great for now because I figured out the movement to the right. Over and out for now.

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Reviewing past insights from the amazing Plotto guy. I am so glad I recorded this a month ago above on Feb 3. The master plot ensnares the protagonist. This ensnarement creates a situation for the protagonist. Examples of this situation are the conflicts for the protagonist and the ensuing concrete action. There is a situation created when the Masterplot ensnares the protagonist. Beware the lawless inspired by incomplete readings of history. Beware the lawless scavengers of the past.

Returning to these posts I have learned the power of journaling and the power of routine. Creativity resides within a structure.

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It is 8:26. Interim grades were uploaded Thursday. My Plotto guy skipped town but poked his head in today briefly. I had a faculty meeting Monday and so it was my misfortune or fortune to get to the Dollar store late after 5 where I encountered a puppy in the store who had been running around the store. I think it belonged to an elderly man there but he said it had followed him to the store. It had no collar. They convinced me to take it. The old man put a collar on her, which I went ahead and purchased. I will call the pound and see if anyone has called for her. She is currently staying in my garage, which my car isn't very happy about because it has to stay outside. The pup is way too rambunctious to stay in my house with my other dog and my cat. She has responded to my commands of "sit" and "stay" through the enticement of treats.

I think I see the tides of my poem novel better though, yet inarticulate, yet rising out of chaos.

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Glad I’m back? I certainly am. This is what I got from the Plotto guy, who is nothing short of brilliant. The conflicts provide concrete action that are examples of the situation created when the Masterplot ensnares the protagonist. This is my take on it anyway. It makes sense to me at this point. I’ll let this incubate awhile.—Oh yes, remove four X from previous week! How is this for the bass? (Rework from one last week that I thought deserved a red X. Beware the lawless inspired by incomplete readings of history. This one might be better that occurred to me just now. Beware the lawless who scavenge the past. Still working on something concise.

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It is 9:31. PM. Where did the day go? Mostly spent on CEID. I ask myself this question?

What are the imperatives that close my poems? My so-called novel? The sometime puppy that I was feeding and that I rescued from Dollar General so they would not call the pound disappeared. She wouldn’t stay in my garage. I don’t know where she was staying, but she’d be on my deck in time to eat. A lady took her to the shelter. I’ll see if I can adopt her or what the shelter recommends. This was the picture the woman took. Possibly the woman’s home looked like the puppy’s real home?

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I'm writing my Sunday post now because seeing the Plotto guy's picture and his real name reminded me of my muse, John Milton. This is the kind of happenstance I like to call a good sign, mainly because I can feel it support my creativity, like a summon of the muses, or a magic wand touching my downcast shoulder. Sundays are stressed because of lesson prep and I have first class Monday.

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Jerry Seinfeld backwards. I will learn story plotting; I will research story plotting; I will pick at my plots; I will work on this and write every day after I get home from work, after changing my clothes, feeding the dog, and doing 10 on the tread. If I miss a day of plotting I will erase the X.

Monday - still learning this app. just figured out I need to make this public. I don't think I will be able to remove the red X's. Monday I'm good. --see the rest to the right. I figured out saturday morning at 11:30 cool lateral moves, so no more plowing downward forever.

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I gained a night. It is 9:30! Something beautiful I did was write two paragraphs. I am remembering that little wins in meaningful work are necessary for creativity. This is under Environment in Starko. Ray says write a short story a week and at the end of a year you will have 52 stories and he says the odds are against all 52 being awful stories! I had a little win today.

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My Sunday I am recording Saturday because Sundays are my prep day for classroom teaching. The thought is stressing me out as we speak, so to speak. Saturdays I’m making my holy day of muses. SUNDAY NOW. 9 pm

And they will steal your past. And they will write on you the past of another. And we will be the scavengers of history.

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The Plotto robotic copy cat in Popular Mechanics 

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I found this online and had to post as a reminder, of what, I don’t know yet. William Wallace Cook’s style in Plotto is beautiful and brilliant and he centers his chart and method on suggestions that encourage originality and creativity. He has a great theory of creativity/originality! Don’t know what he looks like though.

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I am writing this Saturday night. I worked the story more today. The Plotto outline I created really is helping steer the narrative. The story needs to be 15 pages. I have 6 pages so far. Following my protagonist and mulling over his actions, and reviewing my Plotto outline I see where, what scene I have to cut to. This is what I learned today -- the importance of a plot outline.

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William Wallace Cook aka John Milton Edwards

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William Wallace Cook aka John Milton Edwards

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This photo looks more like a guy capable of producing the exceptional prose and of inventing the so creative method of “plot suggestions.”

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Ok. Now I get it! I discovered the option "write post after," so cool. Why didn't I think of that?

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SCROLL to get to current date. The vast green chasms you pass will have a long post in a lateral week day box.

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Worked on my novel. Took me awhile to fine it. Found a few things I did in January regarding structure also. I came on here to find my Plotto bass and tenor. Underlying proposition: Bad actors WILL copy history. OR History is a virus carried by the villainous. That doesn’t sound right either. I thought I had recorded my first formulation.

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Hello, Saturday from the perspective of Sunday! Here is Claytonia Virginia, virgin spring flowers, from Sundays perspective. Sunday has you from your Saturday perspective. You had the flowers all day!

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I figured out this lateral move below, hence my side step right. It don't matter because none have seen this.

Monday I'm good. I purchased two books. One is a workbook, for which I await delivery. The other is a kindle book and so fantastic and so weird, that I love its fun kinkiness. It's called Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots. By "all' it literally means all that can be churned out on a mathematical type system or slide rule. A dime-novel writer wrote it in 1928 as systematized method for producing fiction and which debuted at the Plotto Studio in Boston. It is fun and informative. I began writing my masterplot. I did not do 10 on the tread. I did feed my dog. Sadly, I'm not often satisfied after a full day of 10th grade teaching. Hard to say if my students like me. This is my biggest and most important learning venture.

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Don’t know what happened to Sunday. I purchased Fiction Factory by the Plotto guy (William Wallace Cook/ AKA John Milton Edwards) and finished reading it just now. At the end a review was requested and this is my review on Amazon:

The writing and publishing industry in early 1900, from the personal experience of an excellent writer, provides useful and engaging info to struggling writers of today. As a reader I was all in for this writer who innocently became ensnared and signed away all rights including his name. It ends sadly with a lengthy incomplete list of his work as a list of publishers and amount paid, with no titles because they owned the titles. A brilliant writer who got scammed, yet remained honorable & hopeful.

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Saturday - the day of notation Tuesday we started back to school and I discovered Monday my car has mold because of the sunroof that Toyota never mentioned nor cleaned out the drains whenever I have had my car there for maintenance, the only place I go for maintenance. I read Plotto all week mostly as a weird lingering at words with many thoughts in a stupor. I think I have the underlying proposition for my novel - it's all about that bass, or is it spelled base?: Beware bad actors who learn from partial readings of history. Don't know if this quite flies. Please remove two X's from this list of days, not counting S and S because the day is not over. Plus I am drawing a new, less stressful calendar that will begin with S and S.

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I found the book Plotto on Archives.org. Such a find is always thrilling to see the original binding and publication page. It is signed by the author, a kind of Elvis who never realized his dream or what he felt was his true promise. But he was humble. I had it printed and spiral bound at Home Depot. I miscalculated the cost. I thought $40. Amazon's hard copy is $38. Mine was $74!! But I love my copy. After reading Cook's memoir told in the 3rd person as if John Milton Edwards (thrice removed shows the distance he wanted to keep from his disappointment), I decided I would learn to plot by using Plotto on a short fiction. I am a novice Plottoist. Plotto is Cook's made up term for his invented method of plotting fiction, and he calls writers who use his method, Plottoists. I, the Plottoist. My story is called The Creator. I have written 2,000 words so far using an outline and the three clauses I plotted and adapted from Plotto. The germ of my story is Cook's entanglement with publishers and buyers of fiction. Below is my chunky plot outline for my short fiction using Plotto.

CLAUSE I.  A. Idealistic young man loses job, and in the newspaper want ads, finds an opening at a fiction factory. He is motivated by ideals and motivated by obligation.

CLAUSE II.  B. He takes the job with some misgivings and some conflict and misjudgment about whether the job conflicted with or conformed to his own ethos and beliefs about creativity and purposes for making things. In Plotto terms, he "embarks on an enterprise in which one obligation is opposed by another obligation. Clause 2 gives purpose. Darron finds his purpose, not just to write but to appeal to intellect and ethos after learning to plot.

1.     he balks and "cogitates" then he signs a contract, signing over all rights and rights to his name. In Plotto's terms, he has "followed a wrong course through mistaken judgment."

2.     He writes and learns plotting. They make suggestions to help him believe they are helping him make his story better according to what they and the market want. He can express his purpose, not just to write but to appeal to intellect and ethos. At first he "resists secretly" from honor "a discreditable mandate." He is asked to build a story from something he knows was written by another writer at the factory who has disappeared.

3.     (a) (1058) (1138) -- he seeks to buy back his contract from B (his boss Wallace) and it is in their negotiations that he falls for her. They have sex.

4.     In 298 (669) and (470) and (1154a - another writer "appeals to A for aid, A refuses [because of his love with B and obligation to her] but later "regrets when X mysteriously disappears.

5.     Before he disappears, X has lost ambition (935) (1065*) loses initiative, his ambition, becomes cog in wheel of employer**

6.     298 (e) (1410) he finds X - Darron comes across X as a homeless beggar. Darron knows the beggar is a brilliant writer. He takes him to his apartment to shower and X showers and they compare notes. and figure out they have been scammed. They can sing their swan songs in pity like Elvis's Unchained Melody

CLAUSE III.  C. Darron convinces Wallace that she is crushing creativity and breaking anti-trust laws and trying to hold an illegal monopoly on fiction.

The Creator

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switched up my project slightly. I decided to start with a short story using Plotto because a novel was so complex. I started with my Plotto outline after reading Wallace's (the Plotto guy) Fiction Factory autobio. I have half written about 3500 words and plan on about 7000 words. I had to download the actual Plotto from archives.org because it's not an ebook read but a down and dirty page turner workout. And it really works. It's the first time I worked from an outline, a chunky one using Plotto.  I think I can submit my story for publication. I still might be able to start the novel outline. I love my short story.

This is the selfie a monkey took and the courts decided the monkey had no copyright because only a human owns a copyright

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I finished my Plotto short story. I don't know if it's good or not. Here it is. It is my first short story.