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$20K (or a possible 120K) for your soul?
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<blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 237027" data-attributes="member: 1645"><p>I don't think that's the only reason I disagree with you...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That certainly sounds like what they're looking for, an idea that works for gaming, novels, etc.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Might I recommend getting one novel 100% finished? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Your creative soul? Once you've won the contest, you've sold the rights to sell products and make money off of a particular setting. You haven't sold any part of your soul, creative or otherwise.</p><p></p><p>If you honestly believe you're going to make more than $120k off your idea -- especially once you take into account the value of your time and how this $120k only takes 111 pages of writing, not 24 novels of 300 pages each -- then I say you're probably delusional, but maybe you're onto something. If you don't think you're going to make $120k off your idea, there's no reason <em>not</em> to sell it away for $120k (plus industry fame).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm sorry, what's your superior alternative? Right now you're getting <em>nothing</em> for your five and a half years of "vision". No one's reading your work, no one's discussing it online, and no one's paying you a dime.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So you haven't published a single work, but your first novel is practically guaranteed to get published by WotC? Huh?</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I don't think you're getting "gypped" or "screwed" if you sell a 100-page setting bible and associated rights for $120k. I'm not sure you're even screwed if you sell your setting for $20k -- especially since they'll do graphic design on your world and put out a nice hardback of your ideas for you. Wouldn't that be cool?</p><p></p><p>If WotC had us all sign over all rights just to enter the contest, then I'd completely understand your worries, but they specifically avoided that Evil Corporate Legal Tactic. It looks like they're playing more than fair and squair.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mmadsen, post: 237027, member: 1645"] I don't think that's the only reason I disagree with you... That certainly sounds like what they're looking for, an idea that works for gaming, novels, etc. Might I recommend getting one novel 100% finished? ;) Your creative soul? Once you've won the contest, you've sold the rights to sell products and make money off of a particular setting. You haven't sold any part of your soul, creative or otherwise. If you honestly believe you're going to make more than $120k off your idea -- especially once you take into account the value of your time and how this $120k only takes 111 pages of writing, not 24 novels of 300 pages each -- then I say you're probably delusional, but maybe you're onto something. If you don't think you're going to make $120k off your idea, there's no reason [i]not[/i] to sell it away for $120k (plus industry fame). I'm sorry, what's your superior alternative? Right now you're getting [i]nothing[/i] for your five and a half years of "vision". No one's reading your work, no one's discussing it online, and no one's paying you a dime. So you haven't published a single work, but your first novel is practically guaranteed to get published by WotC? Huh? Anyway, I don't think you're getting "gypped" or "screwed" if you sell a 100-page setting bible and associated rights for $120k. I'm not sure you're even screwed if you sell your setting for $20k -- especially since they'll do graphic design on your world and put out a nice hardback of your ideas for you. Wouldn't that be cool? If WotC had us all sign over all rights just to enter the contest, then I'd completely understand your worries, but they specifically avoided that Evil Corporate Legal Tactic. It looks like they're playing more than fair and squair. [/QUOTE]
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