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Originally Posted by Giggleton
I just don't see the point of having a public and a non public domain. Why limit ourselves? That whole, "But there won't be any incentive to write!" is just a straw man or something, for those who are into that sort of logical thing.
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That something you are looking for is called reality. Frederick Faust, better known by one of his pen names, Max Brand, wrote more than 500 novels and almost as many short stories during his life. He really felt his true calling was poetry, but he is remembered far better today for his westerns and for creating Dr. Kildare.
Now lets consider this for a moment; he wrote more novels than most people will read in a life time (and his life was cut short by WWII). How could he have done that without his writing being his main source of income?
Mind you, the western genre may not be as popular as it once was, but in his day, he was probably read by as many readers (if not more) as were reading Robert E. Howard or H.P. Lovecraft.
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Bill