5/7/2023 0 Comments Soulless glassSometimes the money is fine but it’s usually in the low-to-middle end of the pool, and it’s also money you can’t capitalize on much - most don’t give you royalties at all, and if they do, they’re more like the ghost of royalties, some fading phantasm, some monetary specter rattling its chains-made-of-coins around your authorial piggy bank. When I write for, say, A Big Brand About Spaceship Wizards, I am for sure not the property owner.īecause our souls and our hearts are probably why we’re doing IP work in the first place. When I write my own book, I am the Intellectual Property Owner. To clarify, for those not in the know, IP work means Intellectual Property, which is already a bit of a misnomer because all work is intellectual property - it’s just here, the locus of who owns that work is different. So, while fully recognizing the person may have very well been trying to champion original work instead of “IP” work, I do think it’s worth talking a little bit about IP work. It’s why I’m making this point here on The Blog, where I can more (exhaustively, wordily, eye-rollingly) make my point instead of having to condense it into an amuse-bouche course of fine points that will somehow go viral and end up being wadded up into a ball of broken glass and fired at my house. It’s like a dunk tank where you’re dunking people and then getting dunked for dunking on people and then as you’re being dunked you still find other people down in the deep to dunk on, until everyone is drowning down in Dunktown. As I am increasingly wont to say, Twitter is the place where somebody was wrong on the internet. It is a wasteland where nuance goes to die. Now, as someone who has written at least a little bit of IP, I take exception to that - while also recognizing that the person wasn’t likely trying to make a problematic point, and was not expecting the internet to fall on their head, but that’s Twitter for you. Or maybe they said it about the writers of those books? So, I take it someone on Twitter said something about IP books being soulless.
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