My Personality Is 94% Rare
Your Personality is Somewhat Rare (ISTP)

Your personality type is reserved, methodical, spirited, and intense.

Only about 6% of all people have your personality, including 3% of all women and 8% of all men.

You are Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, and Perceiving.

How Rare Is Your Personality?


NaNo2008: Day 4 (and PSA)
word count page count
previously written 6,528 33
newly written 2,754 13
total 9,282 46

How's everyone doing?

BTW — My site host is having a lot of problems with its email server. If you sent me an email requiring my response but haven't heard back, please resend later or leave me a comment with your contact information, and I'll be happy to send you a note from my gmail account.

Thanks!


NaNo2008: Day 3
word count page count
previously written 3,708 19
newly written 2,820 14
total 6,528 33

It took forever to get those pages down. I think I did my opening wrong.

How's everyone else doing?


NaNo2008: Day 2
word count page count
previously written 2,816 14
newly written 892 5
total 3,708 19

Not too shabby. I only wrote five pages, specifically because that's all I've been planning to do anyway.

How about you?


NaNo2008: Day 1
word count page count
previously written 0 0
newly written 2,816 14
total 2,816 14

Not too shabby, but I could've done better…

How's everyone doing? BTW — Is it me or is the official NaNo site just s-l-o-w?


Copyright Registration & NaNo

Devil FallsAs you know, Devil Falls is out. (Everyone, go buy a copy! ;) ) Samhain doesn't register copyright for the works it publishes, and so it was up to me to do it. And I did just now. It's very easy to do by going to copyright.gov and it only cost $35. (BTW — there's nothing fishy about Samhain not registering copyright for its authors. Samhain is a small press, and it doesn't have the kind of resources to do it for all the titles it publishes.)

Some may ask why I bothered. Or why I hadn't waited to see if it was worth it based on the sales data before I registered.

I did it for the same reason I got my Samhain contract reviewed by a literary attorney. This is business, and I wanted to do it right. There's a big difference between the kind of protection you can get by registering within three months of publication v. later (or not at all):

Registration within three months allows you to become eligible to receive statutory damages and legal costs and attorneys' fees from a copyright infringer.

…lots of other benefits that come with registration, like providing a public record of your copyright claim or that copyright registration is a prerequisite to bringing a copyright infringement suit. Sure, you can register your copyright later and then sue, but you'll end up paying a lot more to expedite the process since you'll want to immediately obtain an injunction against whoever is infringing your copyright.

Will I ever need the protection? I hope not, but you never know, and I prefer to have all my bases covered.

Now for more fun stuff….NANOWRIMO!!!!!

I'm planning to write 15 ms-formatted pages a day, five days out of a week, and write about 5 to 9 pages on the other two days. I think that's very reasonable.

So NaNo, here I come!