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[intothewood]

Sharing. When do you determine who, when and how?

I'm very wary of sharing any of my writing beyond silly little things I care nothing about. It's like a native fear of picture taking - if they see it, they will steal my soul!

But there are precautions in sharing, especially things you're currently working on - or at least I think so, anyway. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I can't imagine I'm the only one who feels this way. Of course, I am a little extreme - I can't seem to let go of even one sentence. I was going to ask people to share a sentence from what they're currently writing, something that may sum up the gist of the story, but I don't know if I could reciprocate. Yes, yes, that is paranoid, isn't it. But I don't know you, you don't know me... we could all be soul stealers, who can say?

So how do you know when to share, with whom, and at what stage?

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[smw]

I don't publish online anything that I intend to peddle in professional markets, and I can be very shy showing my work to someone whose opinion I value if I'm uncertain about their reaction.

Other than that? I believe the soul of my work is in the gestalt, not the parts, and that no one could steal that without literally abducting me to write something for them; as you can see by my journal, my short fiction is public.

[intothewood]

Ooh, literary abduction! Sounds intriguing :P

[smw]

Hey, I'd go for it if that meant I could ignore my other obligations. *g* "Couldn't come into work today, have been abducted to pursue literature..."