Sian

My New Blog...

I set up another blog...  Here's the first post off it--the explaination for having it around-- so if anyone is interested (may Gd have mercy on their soul) they can help themselves.

Okay... So, here's the deal.  I'm taking a creative writing class by distance learning this semester.  I'm evidentally supposed to write about ten poems during the course of it, with the final project being preparing a manuscript for publication.  The problem is that every time someone says something about preparing a manuscript, what they wind up meaning is, "We're going to be submitting manuscripts this semester."

The problem with that is that I'm a firm believer in intellectual property rights.  A professor has no more right to tell me to submit a poem than he has to tell me that I have to auction off my purse, or sell my house.

So, here's a compromise...  I'm going to publish said poems, on the internet, of my own volition.  See?  Not only have they been submitted, they've also been published.  Letter of the law followed.  Check.

Yes, I know that publishers pay for "first publication rights" and I'll probably never see any money for any of these, but given a choice, I'd much rather give them to you guys than sell them at three cents a word anyway.

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