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Author Craft / Re: Author In Progress
« on: January 20, 2009, 08:10:43 PM »Ping: Preditors and Editors and Writer Beware are two good sites to help you weed out the scam artists.
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Author Craft / Re: just curious
« on: January 03, 2009, 08:21:58 PM »I think it's something like sending yourself an empty envelope, or whatnot, and then later on putting something in it. I think this is the thread dealing with all that stuff.
See...I had always heard for it to work you had to send the material to yourself (just to get the postmark) and keep it sealed. Then if needed you could show the postmark and then open the envelope (in front of a lawer or judge or what have you) and show that you in fact wrote said material on or before the postmarked date.
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Author Craft / Re: Point of View Question
« on: December 30, 2008, 08:10:23 PM »Heinlein did it in The Number of the Beast. Each chapter was headed by the narrating character's name in italics, followed by a colon (e.g., Zeb: ). Easy. It takes great skill to write each character in his/her own distinct but natural-seeming voice, however; if anything, I'd be very careful with it.
Yeah...I haven't really dug into it yet...it might not even work...we'll see...
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Author Craft / Re: Point of View Question
« on: December 30, 2008, 07:57:24 PM »
thanks for the advice folks...
I think I might have thought of a way...
I am thinking of a symbol - maybe the first initial of each character - placed at the beginning of each chapter, indicating which character is narrating. maybe the first two have the full name of the character (it's just two different characters), but then all subsequent chapters have only the initial. (somewhat stylized initials...both in some way reflecting the personality of the character they represent)
I think I might have thought of a way...
I am thinking of a symbol - maybe the first initial of each character - placed at the beginning of each chapter, indicating which character is narrating. maybe the first two have the full name of the character (it's just two different characters), but then all subsequent chapters have only the initial. (somewhat stylized initials...both in some way reflecting the personality of the character they represent)
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Author Craft / Re: just curious
« on: December 29, 2008, 07:15:27 PM »I've heard people say this before. It doesn't necessarily work. For one thing, it isn't backed up by the law so doesn't have any official recognition, for another, it's too easy to insert material into an envelope later.
Anyway, if you're worried, don't post anything. Honestly, ideas are very rarely wholly original, so any similarities you'd see could easily be coincidence. And even if someone did steal your idea, it wouldn't keep you from using it later; it's the body of work rather than the idea that counts as IP. Besides, most people wouldn't bother stealing them. Ideas are a dime a dozen, people tend to have their own already and won't need yours. As for the work itself, I'm not sure if it's protected, I've heard DMCA automatically protects what you post but I'm not sure it's true; really, though, it's pretty unlikely anyone will steal it.
Again, if you're that worried, just don't do it.
yeah...I'm not really all that worried...I was just wondering what was what.
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Author Craft / just curious
« on: December 27, 2008, 05:41:05 AM »
I looked for a thread covering this topic but couldn't find one - sorry if this is old hat
Everybody here seems to be real cavalier about posting unfinished work and/or story ideas and what have you...I think that is really cool, but, is there ever any concern about people's ideas being lifted? Is there just an unwritten rule that everybody is cool enough to follow? I am not super concerned, I just have what I think is a cool idea, would like to get some advice on it and am not sure exactly how all this works.
Also I was wondering...if you post something you have written...does that work kind of like what we used to call a "poor man's copyright" (Mailing something you have written to your own address, so it has a post-mark and therefore proves WHEN you wrote it) - I mean...since the forum keeps track of who posts and when?
I am not in any way questioning anyone's honesty...but...you know...it's the internet.
-Danny-boy
Everybody here seems to be real cavalier about posting unfinished work and/or story ideas and what have you...I think that is really cool, but, is there ever any concern about people's ideas being lifted? Is there just an unwritten rule that everybody is cool enough to follow? I am not super concerned, I just have what I think is a cool idea, would like to get some advice on it and am not sure exactly how all this works.
Also I was wondering...if you post something you have written...does that work kind of like what we used to call a "poor man's copyright" (Mailing something you have written to your own address, so it has a post-mark and therefore proves WHEN you wrote it) - I mean...since the forum keeps track of who posts and when?
I am not in any way questioning anyone's honesty...but...you know...it's the internet.
-Danny-boy
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Author Craft / Point of View Question
« on: December 27, 2008, 05:30:10 AM »
Is it unheard of to write in first person, but to split the book between two or more characters. For example...say one is a vampire and is only awake at night...would it be too much to tell the story from that point of view when it is night-time and from another character's point of view in the day?
also what would be a good way of indicating which character was narrating at the time? One in italics maybe?
Danny-boy
also what would be a good way of indicating which character was narrating at the time? One in italics maybe?
Danny-boy
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Author Craft / Re: Strange Idea.... set in the Old West?
« on: December 27, 2008, 05:11:57 AM »
I am working on a paranormal/western idea too! Not much like your idea here (which is really cool, by the way)...but both could be considered "paranormal westerns", if such a genre exists.
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Author Craft / Re: Werewolves and pregnancy
« on: December 27, 2008, 04:42:22 AM »
I know this in no way answers your question...but I just had to say that your story idea is really cool.
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Author Craft / Re: Author In Progress
« on: December 27, 2008, 04:36:49 AM »
well...all my life I have sort of thought of myself as a writer - though I have written very little of any real quality.
I am always the guy with the great ideas but who lacks the moxie to follow through and actually create something of it. (I mean...I shouldn't say that...because I do other things...play music...paint...make various other types of art - it's just a matter of different degrees of inspiration or something)
But now I am about to turn 40 in a few months, and I have really been making a project of getting off my ass and doing some of the things I have wanted to do in the past. So this has me really wanting to take another hack at writing.
I have ideas for two sci-fi novels and a series based around a what I think is a pretty unique character - I am not sure how to classify those, genre-wise.
I have been reading Jim's LiveJournal and that has helped a lot. I had no idea, in the past how to plan out a story before writing it - I just figured I'd sit down and write x-amount each day and it would just end up being a coherent story. Never too old to learn the right way to do stuff.
So yup...that's where I'm at. Oh...and I am new to this forum too, as you might have guessed.
-Danny-boy
I am always the guy with the great ideas but who lacks the moxie to follow through and actually create something of it. (I mean...I shouldn't say that...because I do other things...play music...paint...make various other types of art - it's just a matter of different degrees of inspiration or something)
But now I am about to turn 40 in a few months, and I have really been making a project of getting off my ass and doing some of the things I have wanted to do in the past. So this has me really wanting to take another hack at writing.
I have ideas for two sci-fi novels and a series based around a what I think is a pretty unique character - I am not sure how to classify those, genre-wise.
I have been reading Jim's LiveJournal and that has helped a lot. I had no idea, in the past how to plan out a story before writing it - I just figured I'd sit down and write x-amount each day and it would just end up being a coherent story. Never too old to learn the right way to do stuff.
So yup...that's where I'm at. Oh...and I am new to this forum too, as you might have guessed.
-Danny-boy
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