That’s not too bad 
You’ll soon make your goal 
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I would like to live in a mall 
How did you end up doing on the story?
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I dropped it…
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@AllyNicole @CoffeebyNight @NotARussianBot
I looked at NaNo’s ToS. It does say the name and trademarks can’t be utilized, copied, or reposted without their permission. I’m guessing it’s problematic if someone uses “NaNoWriMo” or “CampNaNoWriMo” putting the little TM on the top right corner or if they use it in some product to make money. I’m pretty sure saying it around is fine as long as we’re not making money out of the content.
There are plenty trademarked words we say in everyday life like Cheshire Cat which is trademarked by Disney. We just can’t use “Cheshire Cat” in things that will make money, or the mouse might find and fine us.
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Hmmm 
Interesting. And yet, earlier, it does say you can be at least 13 years of age. So the kids can join but not access all features. I’m wondering if one of those features is the forum…
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Think you’ll ever continue it again?
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NWAMC should replace it.
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Unfortunately given there’s no exceptions, I’d be careful - their lawyers aren’t the brightest sparks.
You are right about the age restrictions - it did explain all of them, so you can’t put a location on your profile or anything if under 18
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I don’t know.
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Psssst! The entire text of Alice in Wonderland is in the public domain in most countries, and definitely in the USA. Disney can’t copyright anything of it other than their own original images and soundtrack, not the text. So you can use the words Cheshire Cat all you like since Lewis Carroll invented those, he never worked for Disney, and he’s long dead now. (*＾-‘) 乃
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That is true. It’s also in the public domain in Japan where I live. However, if you look up
“Cheshire Cat trademark”
it is trademarked by Disney last I checked. Cheshire, however, is the name of a real place, so it’s fine to use just that name. I can’t say he’s a “Cheshire Cat”. But I can say he’s a cat named Cheshire. It’s very confusing, actually, when it comes to Disney, what can or cannot be used. I’d rather be safe than have to deal with it 
The character in my book has always been Cheshire Vaudeville, btw 
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That would be ridiculous! They can’t stop people from saying it 
What are they going to do? Silence people online? The entire NaNo movement on social media will have to be destroyed. I guess we can say NaNo though. They didn’t think of that
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NWAMC!
Well, Disney can only copyright their own Cheshire cat; they can’t copyright Lewis Carroll’s. You can’t copyright someone else’s work. So Disney can’t copyright Keiichi Kunishige’s interpretation of Alice, for instance…
…they can only copyright their own.
They likewise can’t copyright Lewis Carroll’s or John Tenniel’s Cheshire cat or Alice, since both are in the public domain.
So it’s perfectly safe for you to use Lewis Carroll’s and John Tenniel’s characters! (੭ˊᵕˋ)੭‧˚₊･*̥✧
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I meant they can’t copyright Lewis Carroll’s or John Tenniel’s work because you can’t copyright someone else’s work, but it’s in the public domain anyway and no one can own something in the public domain. But you knew what I meant. (♯ᴖ.ლ)
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Given what they’ve been doing for the past few months I’d say they’re TRYING to burn it into the ground
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Yeah, I know
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I get it with the SEOs and stuff, you have to do things to get people to come to your website saying “this is THE BEST writing advice” or “here are FIVE TIPS you SHOULD do” and people like lists. But it’s not the best and you don’t have to do it and often the type of advice is for a certain type of writer.
YouTubers who are writers also do this and it’s frustrating. Here are five things you MUST do if you want to be a writer. Like no, not always a must. I especially get frustrated when some of those must tips are the problematic “write every day” or “show don’t tell”.
Ugh.
I get frustrated, too, when I see people ask on FB things like “how would a mermaid give birth?” and then the response is “you can do whatever you want. It’s your story!”
I think they know that I think they want examples or ideas and stuff to work off of. So I usually say, “this is what I did and it might be cool if you looked into this or that, or asked yourself this or that”.
Any thoughts on this? This was kind of me rambling and not really asking you guys anything
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I know, it’s annoying, isn’t it? how saturated YouTube is with writers creating advice channels. I get sidebar recs for new ones all the time too, and they’re just making videos about the same twenty topics every other writer has already covered a billion times before.
Most of those videos seem to have clickbait titles, too, since writers make more money from Google these days than from their books. So they very often promise things they can’t deliver. I don’t know how many videos I’ve seen with titles that suggest if you follow their advice you’ll sell a million books and become rich. Argh. So why are they filming that video from what looks like a crappy little flat then?
But you have to be sell yourself in order to sell your books these days, sadly, and there’s nothing most writers are acknowledged to be an expert on except writing.
I agree with this post I read yesterday on LitHub about writers having to brand themselves:
Especially the ending paragraphs:
…artists (like everyone else) would do well to start thinking about the values of privacy and opacity, or what in European Internet law is called “the right to be forgotten.” I don’t mean shutting off all of our social media accounts and moving to (what’s left of) Greenland; I mean thinking very carefully about the extent to which we confuse our personhood and our work. The statement “if your books aren’t successful, it’s because you failed to be an interesting public personality” is only a hairsbreadth away from the statement “if your books aren’t successful, it’s because you’re not a worthwhile person.” Both imply the same thing: it’s really you, not your art, that’s being sold.
A much healthier attitude, to paraphrase Fugazi, is to look at the reader (or “the public,” if you prefer) and say, I don’t owe you anything. Just the book. Just the words. A work of art should be its own explanation.
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Depends if they are fish or whale like. They might just lay eggs in a purse looking thing.
The least useful advice I got was to not be derivative, but that was from a video essay about complaining about Harry Potter with no substance.
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