On 7/28/2012 12:35 PM, Paddyjack wrote:
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Raymond Feist
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Jul 28, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Paddyjack <[email protected]>
wrote:
A weird idea struck me this morning and I thought you may have
some ideas about this. Let's say John has this great idea for a
book but can't even write an Happy Birthday card correctly....
can he sell the idea to a publisher, or even directly to a writer
so that it would be written by someone else who knows how to do
it? It seems to happen for movies sometimes, and I was wondering
if it happens also with books?
You're jamming a lot of stuff into one basket.
First, ideas can't be copyrighted. Only the unique expression
thereof, so whatever John might dream up, he'd have to be pretty
convinced it was something special.
As a followup to this, I have a question. For those of you who have
gone through the production (scripts) or publication process (books,
gaming material, etc.), I'd be curious to gather up a few opinions (Rip?
REF?) about why so many people seem to place so much value on the idea
(or refining the idea) rather than the execution. Ignorance or
obscurity of process? High levels of optimism?
-Ray
