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pmmg replied to the thread Do you have any 'side' ideas tickling your writing muscles right now?.I make it sound more focused than I am. I am easily distracted into everything else. Checking emails, reading forum posts, watching... -
casval replied to the thread Book Piracy BAD.Oh no, I'm fine with that! It's true! I used to be the kind of poor where I was shoplifting half my veggies, and broccoli is an actual... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread 99 Words!!.A story of exactly one hundred words is what writers in the UK call a drabble. The first one I read was back in the 1980s, and if I... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread Do you have any 'side' ideas tickling your writing muscles right now?.This is why I have a random text file, for all those ideas and thoughts that turn up but which don't fit into the story I'm currently...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Book Piracy BAD.You mean you'd rather not admit to being a thief. Yes, well, the idea that stealing a millionaire's car or something is OK is in fact...
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GGenly replied to the thread Book Piracy BAD.Sorry, but all scientific progress involves truly original thoughts. It does build on previous work, true. But without originality...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Book Piracy BAD.No it does not. No reputable publisher ever tries to make the author sign over copyright. What the author sells is the right to...
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casval replied to the thread 99 Words!!.I don't know if the term is still in popular use, but I remember works with a 100-word limit were called "drabbles" when I was a kid...
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casval replied to the thread What Are You Playing Now?.Picked up Penguin Colony to play with my wife for the Halloween weekend. It's sort of an anti-colonial retelling of Lovecraft's At the...
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casval replied to the thread Do you have any 'side' ideas tickling your writing muscles right now?.I love the lil evil snow globe! ❄️
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casval replied to the thread Book Piracy BAD.There's a lot of wage theft in the publishing industry, and it's not coming from a couple of people who - let's be honest - probably...
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casval replied to the thread Book Piracy BAD.This is really more of a semantic argument than an ethical or legal one - it's obviously a criminal act, but whether that crime is...
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Llightruin replied to the thread Book Piracy BAD.Traditional publishing typically requires creators to sign over copywrite to the publisher. Intellectual property laws as they currently...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Book Piracy BAD.I think, lightruin, that you need to read up on what copyright is. Put very simply, copyright protects an artist who creates an...
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Llightruin replied to the thread What Are You Playing Now?.Right now I'm playing Wolvden and Lioden. They're browser based games where you breed/raise pretty wolves or lions.