Daoisthentai Wrong. Wattpad takes the crown for the shittiest fanfiction
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- Joined Feb 15, 2019
SilverLightTwin May I PM you? I just have a writing-related question.
EatBBQ Still someone else's character. It doesn't matter if the character's dead, the original author created and labored over it.
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yaoyueyi Oh, this is cool. I'm not in need of a novel cover right now but I do want to know what makes a novel low quality for you? Are you talking about cliches, grammatical errors, etc.? Just curious though.
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fantasyfemme Also single here because 50% nerd life (reading, watching, YouTube, shipping, and whatever nerds do online and oh! Tumblr and AO3!) and 50% by choice (I seldom go out hahahaha). I'm insomniac, too.
SilverLightTwin You mean the quality of the stories? Same here, I worry that this site might be overrun and become just like Wattpad.
Dr_Zombie I forgot Google Alerts. That can also help but sometimes, what happens is that some people will change words or character names... little tweaks here and there.
As for protecting your work, make sure not to delete any files you have of your drafts; if you have hard copies keep them too. Start adding copyright notices to your uploaded chapters.
Hmm, tracing is doable but time-consuming because unless you're willing to pay for a company that combs the internet for illegal copies of your work, you have no other choice but to do a search on your own. That is, to copy and paste parts of your work into Google or any other search engines and see if it will come up on other sites. Then file a DCMA takedown notice. Wattpad in particular is helpful with that.
babyljaie46 That's messed up. I'm sorry you experienced that. What you can do so far is simply tell the commenter NO; that as the author of the story, only you have the right to choose where and when to publish it. Also, you worked so hard for that and there's no reason for him/her to copy and paste your story.