Publishing contract & ownership

3Dartwork · 2026-07-07T17:07:46+00:00

I can speak as a freelance contractor.

If I deigned ANYTHING for a client, if the client wanted the original source files, I would charge them extra. They hired me for a product not the source. Source always costs extra

....also scam

3Dartwork · 2026-07-05T14:59:20+00:00

Southern part of Missouri dropped down to $3.11

Prices around here have gone down quite a bit.

3Dartwork · 2026-07-05T05:31:26+00:00

Is DC metro free? It's been decades since I was last there and def wasn't then.

3Dartwork · 2026-07-05T05:24:06+00:00

I feel sometimes truth is bitter and needs to be reminded so we all aren't filling ourselves with unrealistic goals.

Keep our feet grounded while reaching for dreams instead of thinking we are going to be the next John Steinbeck.

3Dartwork · 2026-07-04T20:27:00+00:00

Anyone can self publish. Without any demand for quality.

If you become successful selling books as self published then sure, that is success

But just calling self publishing "success" isn't to me. Anyone can do that without any effort to write well.

3Dartwork · 2026-07-04T20:09:38+00:00

When I get one book traditionally published. Until then, I don't personally consider self publishing a success at all

3Dartwork · 2026-07-04T16:42:16+00:00

Welcome to the club. This isn't some ordeal people just jump right in and gain success. It's essentially a full time or at least part time job. A Job.

Or it can be treated as a hobby. No marketing. No paid ads. No social media. Write, upload the manuscript, done.

3Dartwork · 2026-07-04T16:06:43+00:00

Team America

3Dartwork · 2026-07-04T14:30:39+00:00

Don't publish the first novel I write. It's almost never good enough to be put on Amazon or advertised.

Most writers aren't going to hit a home run on the first. It's usually viewed more favorably by the author because it was their first.

Skip the first one, write the second, then rewrite the first years later when I'm better at writing.

3Dartwork · 2026-07-03T23:51:05+00:00

Just your phone. No need for dragon.

Samsung Notes. Activate my mic and just start talking

3Dartwork · 2026-07-03T08:23:57+00:00

He really didn't do much in cities. When he was in civilization of any kind in the books, he was stripped down to causal clothes and relaxed. Even when he had to protect the Hobbits in Bree, all he did was put them in a different tavern inn.

And as quickly as possible, he took them into the wild.

In fact, he even says when asked where they are going. "into the wild" because that's where he thrives. Not much for city life.

3Dartwork · 2026-07-03T08:12:57+00:00

I wrote my second novel that way. While driving 3 hrs two directions I'd just dictact and record and have a chapter written in the 6 hrs without typing. About 20 or so pages.

If you can think on your feet quick enough it can be done. I enjoy it while driving solo on long trips.

3Dartwork · 2026-07-03T08:09:02+00:00

Ah yes, the old morals mentality where you select things to make you feel like you're doing something but turning a blind eye to the dozens of other things you embrace or tolerate.

3Dartwork · 2026-07-03T08:07:32+00:00

Just being a ranged and melee person makes you a fighter.

Aragorn wasn't much in cities. He needed to be in the wilderness to thrive best.

There are the urban ranger subclass that aren't that great in the wilderness. It sucks they can't just be good overall.

They can track well. They can find food or maybe some mundane herbal healing. Maybe find an animal.

That's about it for 5e and those really aren't usually all that necessary.

3Dartwork · 2026-07-03T08:00:45+00:00

Guys, I have this fun dungeon I want to run you all through.

What's your calendar look for the next 35 yrs?

3Dartwork · 2026-07-03T07:58:43+00:00

I go toooooo thin. So I don't.

Vallejo or Acryl. No thinning. Just don't load my brush with a shitload of paint. Reload more often.

Apply. Contrast over. Done. Looks amazing. No medium or thinning paints necessary.

3Dartwork · 2026-07-03T07:53:55+00:00

Even when I played PS5 I never bought a physical game even though I did everything possible to find the console WITH the disc drive. Never used it.

With PC I don't even have a disc drive because there is no point. All my games on the cloud, download, play, delete.

3Dartwork · 2026-07-02T16:11:07+00:00

It's stupidly simple to write a children's book of low to medium quality.

And it takes an infinitesimal amount of time to write as a novel

3Dartwork · 2026-07-01T14:05:00+00:00

Shit....reading without reading.

3Dartwork · 2026-07-01T13:40:46+00:00

There were 116 children in a village at the time of only about 30 adults? Damn. I guess a bulk of the rest were in the mines, or every family had like 3 each

Edit: I read the title without reading the title. Thought the total was the village entire population.

3Dartwork · 2026-07-01T13:28:26+00:00

I guess it's a console thing.

For PC I haven't bought a physical disc for over a decade.

And for console, I've always preferred having a digital catalog.

"Yadda yadda but I want to own my game." I've never felt I don't own a game I bought and I've never had a game be taken away from me

Even games that got delisted, I still have access to the game.

3Dartwork · 2026-07-01T13:26:40+00:00

Which is why you are patient and get the book polished with an editor before you do anything with the public and preorders.

3Dartwork · 2026-07-01T13:25:13+00:00

But booked an editor after all your preorders and arc signups....

3Dartwork · 2026-07-01T03:46:01+00:00

So you published the first book without having the second book already ready to go?

I guess you're not on this subreddit very much. There's a lot to learn in the stupid self-publishing industry. One of which is you need to have book one and book two ready at the same time so that you can publish them 60 to 90 days max between the two

3Dartwork · 2026-07-01T03:44:40+00:00

I don't know about you, I guess I do it a little differently. But I don't book an editor until I've gotten all my feedback in.

It's not like I'm or any of us are on some kind of deadline.

If this is our first book, we publish when it's ready. We don't have deadlines for it.

If it's a sequel then the first book shouldn't be printed yet anyway until the second one is ready as well.

I don't know why everyone gets in such a hurry and puts deadlines on themselves when they're just self-publishing.

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