Okay y'all, have you seen today's stink in the writing world?
Amazon has released it's platform for making bank on fan-fic.
Suddenly my Twitter and FB feeds exploded with people reacting to the news. You can find all the info on KindleWorlds HERE
Fan-fic writers will be able to upload and sell their stories based off other licensed authors/creators characters and worlds. So far, the major liscensor is Alloy Entertainment, the people behind The Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars and more. We all know how Alloy cut LJ Smith out of the series she'd been writing, so this kind of a move doesn't surprise me from them.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. If you want to write fan-fic, more power to you. To each their own. Have a blast. I know lots of writers that do. I never have, unless you consider Broken fan-fic of Frankenstein.
Some camps say any publicity is good publicity. Others are saying mine-mine-mine! Others have so many thoughts and concerns they're hard to voice. I'm in an odd position to look at this now, and once I figured out what KindleWorlds is, my brain went into a tangled mess of what-ifs, and what-about-the-authors, and would-people-really-pay-for-its. Then, Fifty Shades came to mind, and I though Yep, lots of people woul pay for it. Which drags my brain further down the rabbit hole of. it's based off SMeyers world/characters, shouldn't she get a cut? It's going to be a film, shouldn't the CREATOR OF THAT WORLD get something out of it? KindleWorlds is opening up a big wriggling, gritty, can of worms.
You can read a great look at this issue, and some fab feedback on Chuck Wendig's blog HERE
A business-y look at itcan be found on John Scalzi's blog HERE
And a post by the brilliant Gwenda Bond HERE on how the properties in question so far are "packaged."
So what do you think? Good idea? Bad idea? Are you into fan-fic?
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Thursday, May 16, 2013
WHOSEYWHATSIT THURSDAY: Stealing Time
When people find out I'm a writer ... that I've written several manuscripts ... they always ask a slew of questions. And somewhere in the midst is the question "where do you find the time?"
These people know me. They know I have three insanely busy children, that I'm the incoming PTA president, that I'm on the board for my daughter's cheer squad, that I work as an editor.
My first answer is that I'm a bad mom. When they laugh at that response - I adjust the answer a little and tell them that I steal time.
You see, for me to write - I need complete silence and I have to know I will have a significant chunk of uninterrupted time ahead of me. I can't write when my husband is upstairs taking a shower, because inevitably he will come downstairs with a question. I can't write when I know my kids will be dropped of in 10 minutes, because I don't want to be in the middle of a scene.
That leaves me approximately five mornings a week ... five mornings to concentrate and focus and power through my drafting or revisions. And so I have to try to keep everything else off my plate.
I do that by stealing time.
I steal minutes from my kids ... when they are doing homework I put away the dishes while looking over their shoulder. When they are playing nicely together upstairs, I pay the bills. I steal hours from my free time ... when I have errands to run, I schedule them when I will be in the area for something else. Or I time them so I can complete everything in one mad rush of a weekend morning. I steal minutes from my relaxing evenings ... making lunches while catching glimpses of Grey's Anatomy or folding laundry while catching up with my husband about his day.
By getting all my tasks done, I am able to really write during the very few minutes of peace and quiet.
How do you fit in writing?
photo credit: dougbelshaw via photopin cc
These people know me. They know I have three insanely busy children, that I'm the incoming PTA president, that I'm on the board for my daughter's cheer squad, that I work as an editor.
My first answer is that I'm a bad mom. When they laugh at that response - I adjust the answer a little and tell them that I steal time.
You see, for me to write - I need complete silence and I have to know I will have a significant chunk of uninterrupted time ahead of me. I can't write when my husband is upstairs taking a shower, because inevitably he will come downstairs with a question. I can't write when I know my kids will be dropped of in 10 minutes, because I don't want to be in the middle of a scene.
That leaves me approximately five mornings a week ... five mornings to concentrate and focus and power through my drafting or revisions. And so I have to try to keep everything else off my plate.
I do that by stealing time.
I steal minutes from my kids ... when they are doing homework I put away the dishes while looking over their shoulder. When they are playing nicely together upstairs, I pay the bills. I steal hours from my free time ... when I have errands to run, I schedule them when I will be in the area for something else. Or I time them so I can complete everything in one mad rush of a weekend morning. I steal minutes from my relaxing evenings ... making lunches while catching glimpses of Grey's Anatomy or folding laundry while catching up with my husband about his day.
By getting all my tasks done, I am able to really write during the very few minutes of peace and quiet.
How do you fit in writing?
photo credit: dougbelshaw via photopin cc
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Writer's Wednesday: Writing Check-In
Happy Wednesday, Oasis-Seekers!
I don't know about you guys, but the end of the school year is kicking my butt. I have three kids and teach preschool, so ... YIKES. End of year projects, parties, awards, gifts, and on and on.
There's not enough coffee to get me through the next two weeks. *needs coffee I.V.*
Image courtesy of Scotty00 via WanaCommons
Consequently, my writing has been taking a bit of a backseat lately, but I really want to make some headway on revisions before the upcoming local SCBWI conference.
So, I thought it might be fun to do a bit of a check-in and goal-setting here. I'm going to give myself a lot of leeway, given my ridiculously long and overwhelming To-Do list, but feel free to be as loose or as strict with your goals as you want. Post them in the comments, and I will check back in with you and see how you did.
For me, by the end of the month (May), I want to finish revising TS and send it out, and do at least four more chapters of revision on M. (Eep! That sounds like a lot!)
What are your goals? Or, if you don't feel like setting any, how is your writing coming along? What are you working on? Where are you in the process?
I don't know about you guys, but the end of the school year is kicking my butt. I have three kids and teach preschool, so ... YIKES. End of year projects, parties, awards, gifts, and on and on.
There's not enough coffee to get me through the next two weeks. *needs coffee I.V.*
Image courtesy of Scotty00 via WanaCommons
Consequently, my writing has been taking a bit of a backseat lately, but I really want to make some headway on revisions before the upcoming local SCBWI conference.
So, I thought it might be fun to do a bit of a check-in and goal-setting here. I'm going to give myself a lot of leeway, given my ridiculously long and overwhelming To-Do list, but feel free to be as loose or as strict with your goals as you want. Post them in the comments, and I will check back in with you and see how you did.
For me, by the end of the month (May), I want to finish revising TS and send it out, and do at least four more chapters of revision on M. (Eep! That sounds like a lot!)
What are your goals? Or, if you don't feel like setting any, how is your writing coming along? What are you working on? Where are you in the process?
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