Desiderius Price

I try to avoid opening paragraphs of detail…. My current story starts with sound. And I nest details in with the actions, quoting the start to my story (use prohibited, example only): And yes, I agonize on the opening, because that’s key to drawing in a reader.

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I’ll add in small details, to a few items, just so it’s more than “a desk”, or a “light”, but a “yellow light” or “wood desk”, adds a small bit of vividness. (Of course, don’t go overboard and spend five chapters describing the intricacies of the Paris sewer system.)

Actually, for skyrim, there’s a very excellent mod, Falskaar, that has the quality of a DLC. Apparently, the mod author wanted to get a job at Bethesda and spent a year making the mod as a “see-what-I-can-do”. While he didn’t land a Bethesda gig, it did result in him landing a job with a different game studio.

Glancing at wikipedia on derivative works… (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work) and… Guess it comes down to whether or not it’s “authorized” …. And we all know fanfics can be done commercially, with permission. J.J Abrams being quite successful at it.

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I’m not a lawyer, so I’m not an expert and fanfic is already on the edge of legality. So while a fanfic does infringe on the original author’s work, it’s also got its own copyright because it’s considered a derivative work. In the case of Harry Potter, JKR’s made it generally clear that she’s okay with it so long as you’re not making money from it. I mention the derivative work thing because she can’t take your fanfic and publish that without your permission either… In the gaming world, some game studios make that a stipulation in the ToS in order for a mod-author to publish a game mod, ie, the studio can take it and make it an official part of the game. Saving of stories is a definite grey area, and makes authors uncomfortable because some saved copies have a habit of showing up on other websites, perhaps an older revision, under either their name, or under a new author’s name (see the hall of shame for examples...).

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I did delete one story because I was replacing it with several others as a rewrite – still in progress… Other reasons I’ve heard are publishing (publishers will typically demand it), and/or other legal issues. I’ll typically cringe when I hear about somebody pulling a story though, just because it’ like a star going out, there’s a void where it was.

I’ve probably guilty of building up a lot of things only to abandon them, as the story works itself out. Also, there are times that something like that can be useful to distract too. (ie, in a murder mystery)

It’s good to have the option, especially in the case of a troll and/or spam.

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I went ahead. Chapter 9, “First Interview” is now posted.

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This round of revising has finished for Dale’s Game (chapters 1-8). The major change, needed to better make the pieces of the story fit together, was I had to shift the story, in the SR universe, by a year, thus Dale, Jarred, et are a year older – this nearly got rid of that minor1 tag, except Dorcia’s still under 14. Some more details, consistency, and things have been added. I checked the before/after word count, and it’s up over 5kwords (with about 2k in chapter 2). I need to finish revising/checking chapters 9-14, then I can get back to writing new material.

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