If you're working on a novel and you post a short story on 'shared works', you might get good (also bad) advice on how to improve your short-story writing... but not a lot of help on your novel-writing technique.
I have seen how MANY have thanked other users for helpful tips. It's even possible that a good comment gives your novel a whole new direction.
Is it really going to bother you if another writer is so inspired by a small detail in your 3,000 words that they sit down and write a 9-volume, bestselling saga? That's not your book: it's theirs. Last week, I got inspired by a funny comment on Q&As to write my first-ever picture book. It will be published within a year - possibly in time for xmas. And the person who made the funny comment is going to help her daughter to illustrate it!
Writing is a gift... a gift that's meant to be given further and further.
Thanks for the insight Wilhelmina, I may not share at this time.
Hi, Kim!
If you're working on a novel and you post a short story on 'shared works', you might get good (also bad) advice on how to improve your short-story writing... but not a lot of help on your novel-writing technique.
I have seen how MANY have thanked other users for helpful tips. It's even possible that a good comment gives your novel a whole new direction.
Is it really going to bother you if another writer is so inspired by a small detail in your 3,000 words that they sit down and write a 9-volume, bestselling saga? That's not your book: it's theirs. Last week, I got inspired by a funny comment on Q&As to write my first-ever picture book. It will be published within a year - possibly in time for xmas. And the person who made the funny comment is going to help her daughter to illustrate it!
Writing is a gift... a gift that's meant to be given further and further.
True Jeremy. Lets hope they are not in the same order.