Don't you feel uncomfortable about Shared Work?

by T. O. Bührer
19th March 2012

I don't know about you, but I think I'll never feel secure about sharing my work (even here at W&A).

What's your opinion about sharing your projects in our community and also on internet?

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If you're worried about copywrite - don't be, the rest of us are too busy with our own ideas :D

If you're paranoid about people reading it .... if you don't trust us to read it, how will you ever submit to an agent?

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Mark Rudd
19/03/2012

At first i was nervous, but then I thought to myself 'Hun? what are you writing all this for?' I want others to enjoy my story worlds and the only way to do that is to show what you can do. If you dont show some of your work, you can never really know how good or how bad you are. Recently there was someone on here who apologised for his writing but after reading his work, I wanted to slap him upside the head. He was great! and told a great story too!

Though it took many many years for me to get to the stage where I could show my work, and now I have a website where I recieve feedback daily and find out where I am going wrong and what I am doing right :) Also, you could try sharing some of your work with a close friends, family member or someone you trust to just take the first step :)

Big Hugs!!!!!!!

Plagiarism? Its a worry, but I tend to only share small amounts of my writing, and try not to outline the story in so much detail one can easily copy it and I know getting it copyrighted isnt too exspenive

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Victoria Limbert
19/03/2012

oh, and to add, I know about the laws about plagirasim however I always think that the story idea will be tainted with the fact that it was taken.

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