Forum Or Something

[kiwicra]

Gidday,

I am jost an ordinary simple country boy and am hoping to get some advice, that is in simple, very simple language.

 

I have a craft website, and I have a forum on it for Kiwi Crafters, but now I have also joined a writing group. My question is, would an ordinary forum be O.K. to set up so that individual writers could post some short stories etc. If it would work, would the actual writers still keep their own copy rights.

 

If a forum would not really be suitable, what other thing could I set up on my website to be used for this sort of idea.

 

Thanks for you advice.

 

Cheers

Jack

[TCH-Thomas]

As for using a forum, it might be a good idea but I think one of those blogscripts would work too. I am no blogperson, so someone else will have to verify that.

 

As for the copyright, this is a neverending issue.

I made a search here in the forum and came up with several discussions about it, here is one of them. I dont know if what you want to do is covered in any of the links that those discussions links to but please look them up. I think though that only a lawyer could give you a exact answer.

Edited December 14, 2004 by TCH-Thomas

[kiwicra]

Gidday

Thanks Mate.

 

I hope someone can explain something about this blog thing cos I don't have a clue. How are they set up and is there a cost, and can it's use add extra traffic to my site?

 

Thanks again

Jack

[TCH-Bruce]

If you want other people to post stories I don't think a blog would be what you want to use. Normally a blog is for personal journal of sorts. You are the one that creates the content.

 

Of course you could also allow other author's to contribute to a blog. But A forum may be a better choice.

[Virtual Imager]

Another thing you might consider is simply having other writers submit work to you which you would, in turn, upload to a page (or pages) on your site set aside for that purpose. That way you would have control of what get's posted and could keep inappropriate material off your site. You could run it kind of like a creative writing magazine with you as editor.

[AlanV]

You could do it as a blog and use Movable Type or another program that offers multiple authors. Each writer could get a username to post stories and such.

 

The way I do fanfic postings is manually.... the author emails me the fic and I copy-paste into the site (ex: http://gilder.alanv.org/gfanfic.html ). Depends on how much time you're willing to put into the site, and if you want writers to be able to post/manage stuff themselves.

 

There are probably some written work scripts out there that can do what you want... but I've never come across one (then again, I've never looked for one). Maybe someone else has?

[kiwicra]

Gidday

 

Thanks for all the advice so far. It's just that with my limited knowledge I thought of the forum. It would be good to keep controle by everyone using it to have to have a user name and password and having to be registed I suppose.

 

Like I said, I am a real novice and the best thing is that I know it, so do realy appreciate all the advice I can get. It's not that any advice can ever be wrong, it's just wrong when used.

 

Cheers

Jack