CALLING FOR NAMING CREATIVITY!

[purpledice]

As you may know, I already have three other blogs--one to track my writing, one for my poetry, and one for my non-poetry writing. They're pathetic really, with the latest update to any of them being in March

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[dr_pretentious]

There are some real concerns that arise from posting works in progress online (see below), but plagiarism is an unlikely one. The best way to steal from writers is not to steal their writing, but rather to promise them that you can make them famous, or at least published, if they write you a steady stream of sizable checks. What does a plagiarist get if s/he steals a piece of creative writing? Something that's no easier for the plagiarist to sell than it would be for the writer, only with a whole lot less personal motivation to go through the rigamarole of selling it than the actual writer feels

[purpledice]

First off, thank you for both your replies, both have advice I need

[dr_pretentious]

There are a few fiction writers who have made the give-it-away-for-free-and-people-will-buy-it model work. One of them, Cory Doctorow, argues that it's the Way of the Future. It works for Cory Doctorow because he already had one of the most famous, most followed blogs on earth before he started publishing fiction, so he started out with a massive platform for self-promotion. He also already had several personal friends among the editors of the publishing house that has published the paper editions of his books, which, along with his notoriety as a blogger, accounts for the publisher's willingness to use him as their guinea pig for new media, new models, and creative commons licensing. For those of us who are not Cory Doctorow, this model has an uneven record of success. I would not recommend it to a not-already-famous person