LJ and Copyright, Part 2
Okay, in my first post about LJ and copyright, I talked about the WIPO Broadcasting Treaty and LJ’s Terms of Service. In this installment, we’ll be discussing concerns about publishing what you’ve already blogged. I’m going to quote from the August 2005 issue of Writer’s Digest magazine. Q: Does having…
Preparing for NaNo already…?
Yes, that’s right, folks! I’m already getting psyched up for NaNoWriMo. I think it’s because of all the writing I’ve been doing lately. Between all these original fic challenges and all the fanfic challenges, I’m feeilng very Up about writing. So I’ve created an f-locked LJ to post my original…
LJ and Copyright Questions
Questions have arisen about LiveJournal and a Broadcasting Treaty proposed by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). In particular there is a discussion about the threat this treaty might pose to bloggers’ intellectual property rights here. I personally have too little understanding of copyright law to comment, though as the…
Blockhead Writer Report
Story: 4 stephaniecain: 0 Have just scrapped Draft Three and am working with a new title, new POV, and rather altered plot. Is it good or bad that I have been staring at the computer and leading jenw118 astray and trying to write this story, rather than cleaning the bathrooms…
WRITING
In a new genre. SO THERE.
The Wise Reader
Filtered to the Novel-Reading Group: slightlyjillian posted these a while back, and I’m gonna borrow them back, because someone has asked for things to help look over the rodeo novel. These are suggestions, and don’t feel like they all have to be answered or whatever, but they’re pretty good guidelines.…
It is not peace when cruelty reigns
“Paladins show that courage is possible,” Cami said to them one day. “It is easy enough to find reasons to give in to evil. War is ugly, as Paks knows well,” she nodded toward Paks…. “We do not argue that war is better than peace; we are not so stupid…
Time Management Quote
From McGee-Cooper, as quoted in Time Management, Planning, and Prioritization for Librarians by Judith A. Siess: “The divergent mind is great at generating quantity [such as tasks], but it has a difficult time remembering what has been generated. It needs a system for seeing all of the tasks that have…
ACFW
After a visit from author Colleen Coble at my library this weekend, I’ve joined American Christian Fiction Writers. Unfortunately the site doesn’t seem to be loading this morning, but I did get an email from them telling them my application had been accepted, so hopefully this week I’ll be spending…
