2WayParadox
Sage
Dear all,
In the thread 'Do you care about psychology', I went into detail about a story I've read in the past. No need to go back, all you need to know is that it was deeply meaningful to me and I'm starting to realize that that story might be responsible for the direction my erotica writing has taken (combining explicit sex with sensitive, psychological issues).
Now it's been a long time since I've read it, but I remember loving it and noticing things that could be better as well.
The fact is, this story is on an obscure site and any given chunk of the story has only 6-12k readers (which might not be so bad, but let's leave that as an aside). Right now I've done an attempt to try and contact the original author, but my expectations for receiving a response are very low. What I'm contacting him for is the following:
I want to edit his work and then make it look nice and publish it online. If I can't contact him, I want to do it anyway. Hold your horses for a bit now.
If I do this, then the first sentence will be me stating that the work is not mine, that I want to see it reach a wider audience and that if the original author finds it he should contact me immediately. Any proceeds would go to an abuse-related charity. I see the comments on the story and it just has to be published so it can reach more people.
Now I have two issues with my own proposal:
What are your opinions? Set aside the rules for a second, I want to hear what your gut says.
2WayParadox
In the thread 'Do you care about psychology', I went into detail about a story I've read in the past. No need to go back, all you need to know is that it was deeply meaningful to me and I'm starting to realize that that story might be responsible for the direction my erotica writing has taken (combining explicit sex with sensitive, psychological issues).
Now it's been a long time since I've read it, but I remember loving it and noticing things that could be better as well.
The fact is, this story is on an obscure site and any given chunk of the story has only 6-12k readers (which might not be so bad, but let's leave that as an aside). Right now I've done an attempt to try and contact the original author, but my expectations for receiving a response are very low. What I'm contacting him for is the following:
I want to edit his work and then make it look nice and publish it online. If I can't contact him, I want to do it anyway. Hold your horses for a bit now.
If I do this, then the first sentence will be me stating that the work is not mine, that I want to see it reach a wider audience and that if the original author finds it he should contact me immediately. Any proceeds would go to an abuse-related charity. I see the comments on the story and it just has to be published so it can reach more people.
Now I have two issues with my own proposal:
- It's plagiarism of the most blatant sort. I'm not sure if this will be accepted, even if the cause is positive.
- I feel like a huge dick saying that I'll edit someone else's work, just like that. I say that because I'm pretty convinced he never looked for any editing, he did everything himself and he probably mainly did it because all he wanted was to get the story out of him.
- Then there's the question of whether his choice of an obscure site was deliberate. It feels disrespectful to publish if he wished for it to remain small.
What are your opinions? Set aside the rules for a second, I want to hear what your gut says.
2WayParadox