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Legal Concerns
Several things. I'm leaving school this semester.
I'll go into that later (as in, not in this blog.)
However, with this free time (though getting a job will
remove much of that "free time,") I plan to actually make a
go of writing. Yes, I said it (well typed it) out
loud. Err...on the internet. Ok, well whatever,
admitting it is what I'm doing, which makes it all that much
more "final" in my mind.
So I grabbed up a big old box of my writings from my
parent's house, and am planning to actually type them up,
edit them, and submit them to magazines for publication.
A ballsy move if I do say so myself. But in doing so,
I realized I need better criteria for what I put up onto
this here website. Some stories have little to no
relevance to the whole world of Caerith, so people can read
them on my website and I don't mind. But, as my father
pointed out, if people can get some stories here for
nothing, then later if I tried to sell them, I might have
some troubles. So anything that I think is of a
particular quality, I'm not likely to post here.
Unless it gets rejected 900 trillion times (as opposed to
the 1.1 trillion times a story normally gets rejected,) then
I'll publish it myself here on the website and everyone can
see why it got rejected so much.
Anyway, because I need to think about what goes up here
more, I'm not likely to put up anything "story wise" for a
while, and even took down a story because it's actually
complete and pretty darn good. Anyway, I've got things
to be doing, but felt it important to address the possible
stagnation of what appears on this site. Sure, as I
type up any poems or whatever those will still be here (I
don't expect to ever make any money on poems, so I'm not as
worried about people potentially not wanting to pay for them
later on.) And things like
The Legend of Kagham will still show up
(again, as I don't expect to ever try to publish that or
sell it for money) but most Caerith related material will be
on hold for now.
All that being said, I still retain full rights to
anything I post. No one can take it or publish it or
sell it or anything other than me or people I give direct
and deliberate permission to. I am not giving
permission to anyone by what I have written above.
Just because I don't expect to sell anything doesn't mean
its free and doesn't mean I'm giving up possession of the
material or ideas in the material. Just because I'm
being generous and want people to read things (really the
reason I write stuff is for people to read it some day)
doesn't mean anyone else gains any rights to anything I put
onto the website. I hate to even have to say things
like this or think this way, but legal rights are a mess and
I want to keep possible misunderstandings (AKA people trying
to steal things from me and "being sorry" if I sue him or
her or them someday) to a minimum. Yeah, this
paragraph barely touches anything, but it's worth saying, so
there.
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