"Oh man... I'm going to die for this. I just know it. What am I thinking? They might kill me! I don't know if this is a good idea." The smart, handsome, and frequently-known-to-lie Yoshisaurus Rex stared at the blank message box on TMK and didn't know what to do. He desperately needed an answer to this perplexing question but felt worried that this may not be the right place to ask it. "Will people hate me for asking this here? Will they repeatedly kick my b*tt and throw me in the Deezer dungeon to feed me bread? Do I dare to do this daring deed of dukar and despair? When all of life has given me strife and thrown sand in my brown hair?"
YR gulped and decided that he should take a chance and so he typed up his question and hit the "Post" button, dreading what was about to come. That's when it happened. The window to the right of his computer smashed apart and a large black object flew through it into the room. It was a bob-omb! To Be Continued...
And if you just read all of that, you can congratulate yourself for having less of a life than I do! XD Just kidding. But like I said above, I have this little question that I really want to know the answer to. I'm sorry if it's a waste of time or if it's been answered before, but I'm not intending to cause problems. My situation is listed below and I underlined the main questions for your quick accessing pleasure!
I have this big Yoshi fan fiction that I'm currently writing and I really like, but I don't know what to do with it. I’ve been thinking about putting it up on other fan websites so more people can read it, but I have also been thinking about whether I should maybe try to publish it someday. I know that could be impossible since Nintendo has a copyright on their games, characters, and everything else, but who knows what could happen in the future? (If Nintendo goes overboard with their innovation thing or something.) Do you know if anyone has tried to publish their Nintendo fan fiction and what happened? Is there any way to publish things related to Nintendo without their permission?
I know that I could easily have no trouble giving the story to a website, but then I worry that if I could make it into a book somehow that people wouldn’t buy it after reading it already. Or maybe they would steal the idea and claim that it was their story. For the first problem, I could probably take care of easily by adding more chapters that aren’t in the original, or changing things, or only showing part of it as a sample. But the second problem would be... a problem. So here’s my second question. Do you know if fan fiction websites have an option that will prevent cheapskates from copying and pasting the words from my work? Or if I can make it un-copy-able or whatever? >_> That would really help me a lot.
One thing I should mention is that the size of this story is already growing HUGE (possibly to the length of a real book) and that could scare many fans from reading. But I do think it will be a great story and I will take whatever advice I can get for what I should do. This reminds me of that one thread about someone who wanted to make a Mario movie, but this is on a much lower-scale. (I'm only going to aim for a movie if I can get it published and it does good enough. And, yes I do think it will be that good IMO!) Thank you! (=(: )@)
