I'm 13 in a couple of days and i am wondering about publishing sites. I like writing stories and would like to publish some on the internet but the sites need to be free.
2007-09-03 07:25:10 · 6 answers · asked by Lauren 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Stay away from any site that asks you to pay. Always a bad deal.
I suggest you pick up THE YOUNG WRITERS MARKET and see what magazines will pay you to write. You might have more fun if you can make money at it.
2007-09-03 07:30:46 · answer #1 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do not publish your stories on the internet - not if you have any hope of ever selling them professionally. The internet is a playground for plagiarists. They steal anything and everything they want. Your stories can be stolen and you will never know it. In the meantime, as soon as you tell publishers you have posted online, they will reject you. They cannot take the chance that someone else has already published the story or that there will be a dispute regarding ownership. So they will say no instead of entering into expensive legal tangles. Many of these free sites also have small print giving them the rights to anything posted on their site. You would be giving your work away.
Find yourself a face to face writers group. Try a library or large bookstore. Barnes and Noble and Borders have them regularly. Or ask a teacher to mentor you. Or see if there is a class at a community college that takes high school kids. Many do.
I understand why young kids want to post online. They want the accolades from their peers. They want to hear tons of kids their age praise their work and tell them they are the next Shakespeare. Hon - balance that off against having your work stolen and you will realize you can live without those accolades.
I have starred many great Q and A regarding writing and publishing. They are on my profile Use them. Print a bunch of them out and study them. Many kids are creating their own notebooks of those pages for reference. Add me as a fan and you will get updates when I star new one. It will save you from having to weed through Resolved Questions.
Don't give away your work, hon. Someone in Indonesia or Guam could plagiarize it and you wouldn't know until it showed up in print somewhere. The odds are you would never know until a publisher told you someone else published it and accused YOU of plagiarizing.
Understand this. You own your work the second you write it. No formal copyright is necessary. In fact if and when you sell your work, the publisher will obtain copyrights for you. However once you post it on the internet, all bets are off. A copyright is only as good as the high priced lawyer you hire to defend it. Usually it just isn't worth it and you lose your work. Skip the praise you get posting your stories online. You do not need it. Pax- C
PS Happy Birthday. Mine is the 13th, but I am going to be a lot more than 13!
2007-09-03 09:05:48 · answer #2 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Okay, I had some experience with a group similar to this, but not the exact one. This was also a while ago now.. but they kept calling me and calling me (before I had contacted them).. They offered an advance on a book manuscript, plus 500 copies free in hardback, and then they also said they were going to sell to retails/chains. Okay, I thought, too good to be true. And it was. It didn't work out for me with them.. And IF I WERE YOU..... and I was thinking about self-publishing.... LULU is the ONLY way to go. They don't pay for anything... But you get the services you want at the price you want... Nothing hidden in between the lines. Good luck.
2016-05-20 03:32:18 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I can't really beat what the poster above said but if she hasn't put you off you could always try:
http://storywrite.com
I reccomend, if you want to keep your story safe, printing it out and sending it to yourself via snail mail. When you recieve it don't open it, leave it sealed, then you can post your story. IIt should stand up in a court of law should it ever come to that...
2007-09-04 10:33:39 · answer #4 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are tons of websites that allow you to publish for free. You could use yahoo's one, try geocities.com
I used that back when I was learning how to make sites.
2007-09-03 07:34:55 · answer #5 · answered by Karan K 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-06-04 11:37:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anthony 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋