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Pastimes : Authors & Books & Comments
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To: SmoothSail who wrote (1936)9/23/2009 12:11:33 AM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) of 9622
 
Most authors are careless because they are focused on the subject and not the details.

I am very aware of that. With information being so accessible on the internet, it is SO easy to forget where a thought or idea came from.

As what I'm doing involves a lot of ancient material in the public domain, I wonder just how to handle it. For quotations, citations, and images, I presume I credit the internet or other source where I got it. For cases where a character is modeled after one or more well-known persons, I understand caution is in order, and I hope I don't push the limits.

How far can an author go? For example, Shakespeare used up so much creative bandwidth it's hard not to tread on him.
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