Dear fellow researchers,
I have just attended an enlightening literature conference. The subject of sharing literary spaces was discussed, and a number of questions arose:
- How to create a copyright for your character
- Terms on which fellow authors may use your character, and how you would like to be acknowledged. Could even be financial
- Restrictions of the character, e.g., their location within a certain time-frame. For instance, one writer in India had a new male character who was born in Uttar Pradesh in 1915, never travelled out of India until 1980, when he attended his granddaughter’s wedding. Therefore, if the author gives you permission to use the character, he should not be outside India before 1980
- The question of why to share a character arose: there were several benefits. Your readers will form a literary world in their minds, and they will seek to read every book where this character lives/ It is an exciting concept
Please can we discuss such stuff here? And if anyone has a draft manuscript we can write together, please let us know.
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This is an exciting Idea. I am a scientist, but am thinking of writing detectives. There are numerous writers of fiction with a non-literary, and I think someone creating a character and allowing me to use him will be helpful.
Wow. This is exciting. Would a character, therefore, be an intellectual property which could be owned
under a patent?
Nice thought you've got, madam. With the English language and the dissemination of information today, the sky is the limit for African authors. Many researchers sent articles for me to edit. Most of them cite Bleeding Stubs, which is exceptional short fiction from his demographic.
I was about to buy Bleeding Stubs after all the recommendations, but I was delighted to find a free copy in this magazine https://sites.google.com/view/marvelousliterarymagazine
Fast paced, deep but with a dark end. Please can we read it and discuss it here?
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