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Author Craft / Im reference to my works...
« on: August 26, 2006, 05:12:01 AM »
Haha, caught ya! Sorry, but I feel tense and would like to talk to other writers. The creative people I hand around with just are not helping me so much. Maybe you guys could help me out. I don't have anything really for anyone to read, but then again, I'm not entirely sure if it would be polite to ask other writers to take time out and read something from someone whom they only know by their screen name. Anyway, enough with the rambling, here are my problems.
The piece I am currently working on (one of the many; can't stop ideas from keeping me up at night) is actually based on a game that I have played. Take a guess of which game if you wish; you might win a prize. Now, I am not running the game, but playing along other people. I had decided to write down the stories of what has happened in the game. So it turns out, it would make a really good novel series, if one did a lot of editing and actually formed dialogue. The problem that I have is that the man who is running the game wants 'in' on the work that I am doing. This started over a year ago, and I did not think about it before I agreed. Now, he is trying to rewrite everything that I have worked on, saying that "What I have is not what really happened, and he knows the truth". Basically, he is taking my story from me, and using my writing abilities in order to form an actual story out of simple method acting.
Granted, I had agreed to helping him in the first place. Now that I have realized what he wanted by 'help', I am wanting out. But, I have already invested, or should I say infested, enough time and effort into this, and I am like any amatuer author, greedily protecting my works. Also, none of it is copyrighted, so I could be a real bastard and just sign it over in my name, but I'd rather not be so cruel as to do that.
What do you guys think? That is it in a nutshell.
Jacob Swift
The piece I am currently working on (one of the many; can't stop ideas from keeping me up at night) is actually based on a game that I have played. Take a guess of which game if you wish; you might win a prize. Now, I am not running the game, but playing along other people. I had decided to write down the stories of what has happened in the game. So it turns out, it would make a really good novel series, if one did a lot of editing and actually formed dialogue. The problem that I have is that the man who is running the game wants 'in' on the work that I am doing. This started over a year ago, and I did not think about it before I agreed. Now, he is trying to rewrite everything that I have worked on, saying that "What I have is not what really happened, and he knows the truth". Basically, he is taking my story from me, and using my writing abilities in order to form an actual story out of simple method acting.
Granted, I had agreed to helping him in the first place. Now that I have realized what he wanted by 'help', I am wanting out. But, I have already invested, or should I say infested, enough time and effort into this, and I am like any amatuer author, greedily protecting my works. Also, none of it is copyrighted, so I could be a real bastard and just sign it over in my name, but I'd rather not be so cruel as to do that.
What do you guys think? That is it in a nutshell.
Jacob Swift