How to Get Paid for Poetry & Keep All Rights
You may regret giving away some rights of your poetry, some time in the future, for a variety of reasons. It could mean money loss or sacrifice in reputation.
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An editor certainly may have a different political, ethical, or religious attitude than you. "So what", you may say; "there's freedom of speech, isn't there?"
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Answer: Many editors may be very busy and rarely look at your poetry, and even then perhaps only do a quick read through. However, poetry, that has a strong message, may stir an editor the right or the wrong way, at least in your opinion. So if an editor is asked to review and edit a writing of yours, one or more words might get changed or omitted to soothe an editors conflict of opinion. People are human. (The skeleton, of a poem, could be the remains: choppy, without meaning, or with an altered meaning, possibly resulting in doctored free speech).
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Yet at times, you may owe an editor a lot of thanks for saving you from the wolves. A very strong or offensive message may need to be diluted or deleted. An editor may do a better job than you, at whittling the master piece.
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Above are mentioned pros and cons about editor appreciation. There is another method a self editing writer may prefer. Keeping all rights to a published poem, means you can delete a poem or re-edit it whenever you want.
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You can publish your poetry, one poem at a time, at Yuwie and keep all rights, if you include for example . . . © August 23, 2009 by Quack Jack All rights reserved. (However, chances of making money there, is slim, unless you also do a considerable amount of member recruiting and socializing). Using their free website to refer people to articles on other websites like eHow, for example, is OK.
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You can publish your poetry, one poem at a time, at Associated Content, categorized for display only, if you want to keep all rights to your writings.
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Tips & Warnings
Sell some rights for up front pay, if you prefer. Otherwise, keep all rights; don't give them away.
Never publish an original work, you want to keep, on a creative commons website, without giving a copyright notice including all rights reserved, unless you feel a message is more important.
You can put a 50 poem book together for sale as a book or an e book, as you are publishing the poems one at a time, on a site like Associated content.
You can not remedy pitfalls of poorly written poetry or articles, if you have surrendered your rights to edit or delete your works, unless a publisher or editor has the time and want to, to allow it to be done.
