Stumbling Tired Post-Philcon

[dr_pretentious]

Philcon went well. I manifested my mutant superpowers as The Vortex of Schmooze. More about that tomorrow.

I'm about 5,500 words behind. The 3K day caught me up enough that I'm still in the game.

26,135 / 50,000 (52.3%)

Comments

[dragonlaire.livejournal.com]

I assume you mean that the first publication rights have been compromised. Copyright would be a different issue and, presumably, not affected by the mode of publication.
It's an interesting topic but far from a simple one. Here's a couple of different points of view:

http://headlines.nerdworld.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=38

http://www.writing-world.com/rights/erights.shtml

The first of these was the more provocative since it granted the legal assumptions but wondered about the strategy.

Posting just a few of the initial chapters and friends-locking the others might be a sensible way to proceed. Thanks for the heads-up, although I have no plans now or in the near future to publish anything. I'm not sure why I lack the ambition; I'd just rather spend my time writing than chasing agents and publishers. But my convinctions can change. They usually do about most things.