Re last post titled book piracy

Well now you see what happens when publish in clinked not save as one is rush to supper. A bunch of semi ordered words get out. but then as most of this is meant to be my thoughts on the page randomness is to be expected. Still there are ideas there that need to be better explained. And hopeful I will find the time and will do so. But not right now. for now It will stand as it is. There is more than one post to be made. there is a lot of different issues rolled into it. And it seems clear to me now that I had better start with a post on piracy in general as I tried to cover to much in to little words and totally didn't say anything that was clear. yet if it makes one think it is something.
But now it is [past bed time. So another night perhaps.
Dream Well Imaginary reader.
And this I mean to post for all it says nothing. lol

Book Piracy

Hi all this is not my normal type on non-since, you will have to wait to find out why I sometimes think I am a BIV.  Today I want to talk about something that I think should be talked about more than it is. Something that few seem to even be aware of.  But yet it is a Thing, and it is not going away just because it is not news.  I know that my talking about wont matter, but at least there is one more voice out there. Even as tiny as mine is. After all a single drop of rain has little impact, but put enough of the them together and you get a flood.
I'm sure you have all heard of internet piracy, but then again it is best not to assume. So internet piracy is the label that has been given to the share of files on line. though torrents or other net works. It is what Napster was doing way back when.
I don't want to get into the whole right or wrong debate. but should note it is there. So here you go. there is an argument out there that share of files helps sales and the opposing view that it hurts them. There is the question about how this for of sharing differs of any other and that leads in to if any forum is right. There is the issues of how libraries and used stores fit into this. And then the ones who say the companies cause it. And a whole depet. but that is not what I want to take up time with. heck that would take a day on its own.
And when most here the internet piracy they think of downloading music or perhaps movies. Though by far I think most think of music first.  But the rise of e-books mean that book are now out there as well. There has been a few scanned books floating for some time, but most were poor quality, hard to read. Or so I understand. I know nothing of the early days of pricey. I do not know how ease it was to find songs. I am sure they took a good bit of time to download. But now it is a matter of seconds, a minuet at most, to have a book or an album transferred. Some sites say that you can have a library worth of books in less then the time it takes to make a pot of coffee.
I do not know how easy or hard it was to find the album you wanted but now the structure is in place. finding a book is as easy as typing in the name of it. I was shocked to learn. I had been here  bits about book piracy and the needs for writers to protect their work. But I had no idea just how easy it was to find the files. I didn't set out to find a book, I wanted to pricy one not download it. I had used Google to price check other things and so went to it. As I wanted this book in e forum I typed the title in and then add epub as I have a nook and it will read that format. The first results were sits offering a free download of the book. It would be easy to be fooled into thinking the sites had the rights to the items they were offering.  But this was a book i knew was not being offered for free. I wote it off as a fluke, it was a well know aouthor after all and went and posted something about how surprised I was on facebook and went on. But the fact I found it was there, so a few days latter I looked again and then googled a few other books. Clicked the links and found out just how easy it was.
Since then i have periodically googled book piracy just to see what was being said, and found that not much is. Not as much as I would expect there to be. Now if I goolge internet piracy I am more likely to find new links, but few of those talk about books. So I wanted to talk about books. but find that it is not so easy. There is to much to say and to litlle time.
But I must say I do hope that the person who said that there was no talk of books was because no one read was worng. Now I must go, but there is more to say so this will likly come up again.
Good night imaginary reader.

Hi Again

I know long time no word. bet you all have forgotten about me and my random silliness. Well there are a few things I have wanting to get said, so thought I would write them up. Then realized how long it had been and so thought I had better wright a post about that first to remind you that I just write what comes into my head as I am writing. So these tend to jump around a lot.
Yes I am indeed still alive. No Zombie is writing this. At least I don't think so. But then how do I know I am? There are times I do wonder if I am not just a BIV and all this some silly dream.  But then again I don't know why I would be, what any could learn from it. So most days I can banshees that idea. And I am rambling. Well you see what I meant about going where thought takes me.
Now there was something I was going to say here. Not about that, not tonight. Hyumm well. Oh ya why I haven't written? (Just think what my school papers looked like. Yap I asked myself questions in them to, and no they didn't always get edited out. bet I was a night mare for some teachers.)
Well that is not going to get fully explained. Just know I set certain rules for myself and the times I needed to get thoughts out they weren't fit by the rules for this blog or I wasn't on the computer.  Can't wright here without the computer and there I times I can't sit at it. Such as I will not let my self get out of bed and turn on the computer to write, no matter what. It must wait tell morning and not all thoughts live long enough. Which is a good thing, for if they can not yell long enough to be written they didn't need to be. Be it a blog post or a story.
A lot has and has not happened. none of which matters here, save for the changes the new post might have in sound. But i doubt if there is much. I don't think I have changed voice. But then I likely wouldn't know. It is often others who notice changes in a person first and the one changed only when shown them As they were there when it happened and so do not notice it.
Well that will do for tonight. it is late and I want to watch a show or two before bed. But I will try to not staty away so long. As I said I have something I want to talk about and feel this is the place. But we will see what comes.
Night my imaginary reader. Good dreams.

1-12-11

I have gotten so caught up in other things that I have been neglecting you. Sorry. I should do better, but I just get busy.
Busy with what?
Good question there. Hard to say a lot of stuff and a lot of nothing. :) I had that book to write, and am still working on getting it done. Hopping to do a bit of editing on it soon. Make it a bit more readable. If I do, it will be a first. But again I think this one might be something if I can just make myself do it. That makes 3 that have something to them in my opinion. grated I still say I am doing this just for me, but there is a part of me that wonders what it would be like to see a book with my name on it in a book store some day, or on someones bookcase. but that is just silliness. And I am smart enough to see it for what it is.
But that was November what happened to December?
Well that is the lot of nothing. I thought about writing a post, but just never did. I watched it snow and melt and snow. Had a minor cold, fed and built troops as talking to friends.  I think that is the thing that keeps me playing. the chat. It lets me talk and not worry.
So why the post now?
Mostly just to say I am here. I just felt like writing it, but have no real reson. there are things I have thought about saying, but not now. this isn't the time, and a lot is things I should say. Things it is not my place to say. things I know nothing about but think I do.
A bad habit that. one I am trying to get past. I to offten come of as a know it. As though I think I know and don't need to listen.  I don't mean to, but find it hard at times not to speak, and it sounds to sure when I do.
Enjoy the snow. night and good dreams
Oh imaginary Readers :)

The opening page.

Two young kids are standing in a doorway daring each other to enter the room. Finally the youngest, the girl, takes the step in the door, casting a discussed look at the boy. “I thought the whole point of coming here now was so you could do this with out the eyes on you. Just what are you waiting for?”

The oldest shook his head. “I know, it is just now that we are here. I can’t. You go.”

She shook her head and walked on towards the only item in the room. An old tall chair, carved all over with images of dragons and vines and sat down on it. “See nothing” Her voice trailed off as a light filled the room. She went pale and looked at the boy, who had entered the room. “No it can’t be. It must be sensing you. After all dad said.”

He looked at her. “Dad was wrong. Now I am sure of it. It is not me they sang for but you, Sis.”

She shook her head. “No it can’t. He won’t. No.”

The boy knelt before the throne, for that was what the chair was. He looked at his sisters and said. “Your Majesty. It is my honor to be the first to offer you my pledge.” She shook her head not believing. “I will keep it secret. None will hear from my lips. But my hands and my swords are yours to command. You call I will come.”

She shook her head. “What kind of joke is this? Get” She stop and gasp  in pain and tried to move her arm but it was held tight for a bit.

Her brother looked at her alarmed. “What? Is something wrong?” He went to get up but in doing so put his hand on a raised stone and the at a gasp of his own. “What the devil? The floor shouldn’t be hot?” He managed to jerk his hand back at the same time she was able to get hers free. She looked at her wrist and her eyes went wide. “What is it?”

She held her hand out to him. There was an scar the shape of a dragon in flight on her wrist. “What is yours?” Her voice was trembling slightly. He turned his arm over to reveal a scar of a dragon with its wings folded. She shook her head. “No I can’t do this. I can’t!”

He said. “Not now and no one needs know. But the day will come when you are ready. On that day I will be here for you, you will not be alone.”

thoughts

Winter is close. Time to curl up under the blankets and read. Wail sipping hot coco and waiting for the snow to fall. (Mustn’t forget the hot drink.) Surprising how fast the time goes buy, and yet how slow. Soon ghosts and goblins will be running the road and nanoers around the glob will be waiting for midnight so they can set that first word on the page. Me, I tend to be up that late but tend to wait to writ tell after I have been to bed. But who knows I might start at midnight this year. Wonder who will hit 10k on the first day this year? Don’t worry about the ones with 50k on day one. Most of them never look at it again. 90% of the them are the ones that have to show you can just copy one word over and over, They don’t understand that all they are doing is cheating there selfs. It is sad, but can’t be helped. There are a few each year. They just do not understand what it is about. I feel sorry for them, what a sad place they be must be at.

Well, in case you didn’t get it. November is coming closer and that means Nanowrimo. Things are starting to fall into place. Names are coming to me, I am getting some more scenes playing in my head. But the setting still remains vague. And it still requires the over done princess in hiding. Though I have moved it away from the magical sword King Autherish image it had going. So that is a bit better.

It is still looking to be a tad to bloody though. Opening in fight and cycling though others, then settling down to talk in middle. Not what I am used to writing, and I am sure the fights will be more laughable than anything else. Still only the very opening will be put here. As it will be the only part that I will be putting here. I think that the fighting should be up to parents. So the first chapter will go only in my story blog. That is why it has a content warning on it,  so that I had a place to put the items that I thought need it. Another thing I like about lj. It lets you set the rating on each post. But I guess having two blogs works as well.

Sill I am not sure how this will play out. I fear it will come out to overdone to be readable. I love how it is happing in my head, but not so sure about how it will look on paper. More so as in my head I jumped to the middle and the big preparations, which I can’t do when writing. Oh well time will tell. Every word adds to experience.

The trick will be shutting this story down and moving to a new one as I writing this. It doesn’t work to well to be writing more then place in the story. But then that sounds odd. I do wonder if any understand that? Do others write in there heads all the time, or is it just anther of my oddities? Who knows, and dose it matter? After all it the difference that make us what we are.

here

Well so much for daily. Don't you wonder how i mange during Nano? Writing a story is a lot easyer, once started, as the chars take ove and I do not have to fugguire out what to say.
But that is enough of that. like, unless you write stories, you find it hard to believe. Have no idea what I mean. Possible even if you do, for all are not the same. Some are able to control the story. but that is not me. I can only go along for the ride and hope it all works out.

So what have I been up to?

The same old. Oh I have read The Hunger Games it was a good read, went to fast though. I can't wait to get my hands on the second book. I hope it is as good, that the chars stay so real. There could have been more detail, and there are things I wish to see but like wont. But that is the case with any book. Where it goes it great but you wish you could know more about X even thought X was not important for the story. Or I should say I do, for after all I have no way of knowing how it is for others. I can not see inside them.
Nothing much to say. but felt the need to say it anyway.
Oh by the way you can post blank pages by hit enter at the wrong time. :) Don't know why you would want to, but interesting none the less.
night and good dreams
Imaginary Reader