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March 06, 2009
Life , Writing : Thinking of starting a separate blog
So I am planning to do more serious writing – the kind of stuff that may eventually get put into books I will want to get published. I am also interested in “beta testing” some of it on the web – putting it out there and getting some feedback on it. Now here’s the catch – I made a very deliberate decision when I started THIS blog to publish it under a “non commercial, for attribution” creative commons license. Essentially people are free to republish anything I say here as long as they don’t make money off it, they give me credit, and they preserve those rights in their copy.
But I am thinking that may not be appropriate for prose I hope to eventually publish.
So I am debating starting a parallel blog which is kept under a more traditional copyright. I would post my more serious writing there, and would also put up notices on this blog when I post anything “over there”. An imperfect solution; but it is the best compromise I can think of.
If I do this, it wouldn’t happen very soon – I would want to make sure that the new blog is visually distinct, and right now I have no interest in playing with MovableType templates. But I wanted to put the idea out there in case anyone has an alternative suggestion.
Any thoughts?
Posted by Steven at March 6, 2009 05:00 AM
Comments
"So I am planning to do more serious writing" - Good. Yay!
"I am debating starting a parallel blog" - is your readership so large that it makes a difference?
"kept under a more traditional copyright" - right. Like anyone on the web really respects that. You put it out there and, if it is worth promulgating, it'll be promulgated all over creation and usually unattributed, doctored, and maybe disemboweled.
"Any thoughts?" - What you put out here won't be published. What you publish won't be out here. Why make work for yourself? I'd leave the single blog.
Posted by: roland at March 6, 2009 12:59 PM
