"stars are dead"
Vycye
The first thirteen lines are a small part of the whole manuscript, and as such, do not count as publishing the manuscript.
Posting a complete manuscript here, whether it is poetry or short story, is defined by people in the publishing business as "electronic publication."
We do not want to be responsible for the electronic publication of anyone's creative work, so we ask that people not post a complete work here.
Yes, posted comments are also considered to have been electronically published here, but posters are not likely to offer their comments to anyone for any other kind of publication, nor is anyone in the publishing business likely to be interested in publishing comments posted here. So such postings are not a matter of concern the way manuscripts would be.
If you don't like the above reasoning, Infyrno/"Bloodshot", you do not have to come here.
I'm sorry Kathleen, I wasn't thinking when I tossed one out there. Happens sometimes later at night, my brain wonders off somewhere.
Email is a viable medium...or I should hope, since that is how we've been swapping our other works. Alas, I'm not much for poetry these days.
Just wondering aloud,
CVG
On the other hand, since it wouldn't actually belong to any of us, and everyone would understand that they had surrendered any rights to the completed work...it's really not the sort of thing that we would have any reason to put in this forum, though. We used to do that kind of thing in the other forum all the time, don't you remember?
There was even a special project created to try and do a full story that way, but it fizzled out...I think.
The copyright would be jointly owned by all of the contributors, and no one of you could publish it anywhere else without the permission of the other contributors.
Since it would be an exercise (see the stuff that was done in the Writing Decision Stories area for an example of actual text longer than 13 lines being "published" here at Hatrack--all as part of writing exercises), then it would be okay to do.
If BudHaHa or Cris or Lord Darkstorm or anyone else, for that matter, wants to start a "write a poem one line per contributor" kind of thing here or in a new topic, that's fine.
Go for it. Just make sure the rules are clear and that everyone who joins in understands that by participating they have tacitly agreed to abide by the rules.
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The copyright would be jointly owned by all of the contributors, and no one of you could publish it anywhere else without the permission of the other contributors.
Glad this came up. I've been playing around with the idea of using my portions of the old Writing Decision Story (which is no longer on site) to develop into a short story of my own. I separated the "published" parts I contributed -- both the segments which were ultimately accepted as part of the story and those that weren't -- from the portions others contributed, and of course plan to fill in the gaps with new material. Would this work? I'm wondering if some publisher might accept the story as a reprint, if nothing else, with full disclosure of its roots.
If you take only those parts that you wrote, and rewrite them into a complete story, without using any TEXT from someone else without their permission, you should be okay.
Reprints are complete works, and your work wasn't complete. What you would be sending to a publisher would be a manuscript BASED on the stuff you wrote for the Writing Decision Stories. If that stuff had been published as a complete work, you would need to include a disclaimer explaining that "this story, in a different form, has appeared elsewhere" or some such; but it wasn't a complete work, so I think you're safe.