Not My Brightest Moment
Feb. 20th, 2011 12:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teddy_radiatorAshwinder posted the latest chapter of Lay Me Low (Chapter 12) and I'm ever increasingly grateful to my alpha and betas for getting me to the point where I only had five cavities on this (compared to the 40 I had on TPP for As Morning Falls Chapter 4 - lack of beta, anyone?).
I am still reeling from Sempra's stunning artwork for Chapter 10 and Chapter 11. She has done illustrations for Chapters 2 and 3 as well, and I'm just blown away by her, as always. I often say that our Muses are drinking buddies.
I posted a poem to LJ_Scribe yesterday, but just as I sent it off, I realised it was not an automatic posting, and was subject to the moderator's discretion whether or not it would be posted. It hasn't been, so I guess I didn't make the cut, but the dumb thing is that I wrote it on the posting - I have no other copy of it.
I know, dumb as a very dumb thing. I've written to the mod and asked if she would send it back to me, but if she doesn't, serves me right. I can be such a dope at times. At times, I'm amazed my birth certificate has finished printing.
I am still reeling from Sempra's stunning artwork for Chapter 10 and Chapter 11. She has done illustrations for Chapters 2 and 3 as well, and I'm just blown away by her, as always. I often say that our Muses are drinking buddies.
I posted a poem to LJ_Scribe yesterday, but just as I sent it off, I realised it was not an automatic posting, and was subject to the moderator's discretion whether or not it would be posted. It hasn't been, so I guess I didn't make the cut, but the dumb thing is that I wrote it on the posting - I have no other copy of it.
I know, dumb as a very dumb thing. I've written to the mod and asked if she would send it back to me, but if she doesn't, serves me right. I can be such a dope at times. At times, I'm amazed my birth certificate has finished printing.
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Date: 2011-02-21 04:46 pm (UTC)I am ruled by Chaos and the spontaneous power of the imagination ...
There's nothing wrong with being inspired by someone else's work...like, if I'm particularly impressed by one of your drawings and I write a short story based on it, it's only good manners to state that I was inspired by your picture, but I'm not plagiarizing your art.
But if you came up with, say, a unique header that you put on the top of your LJ blog, and I took that header and submitted it to the current LJ Header contest and claimed it was my own, I'd be a plagiarizing bitch! ;-)
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Date: 2011-02-22 12:14 am (UTC)Oh, I apologize if that's the way I came off sounding.
No, I'm definitely not combative or looking for a fight with anyone; but I do admit to getting annoyed with those LJers who stole work done by others and submitted to one of LJ's contests as their own work, all for the sake of possibly winning a few LJ tokens...
I'm basically like you regarding rules, I figure just let things lie until and unless something forces a change. But plagiarizing someone else's work just pushes a major button with me.
Back in my college days when a no-talent professor of a creative writing class I was in implied that I had plagiarized either my class assignments, or my term paper, I brought years of my writings to the Dean of the department and registered a complaint. If the bitch professor didn't like my termpaper, then give me an F, but don't dare accuse me of plagiarizing!
Soapbox mode now turned off
;-)