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Help With My Novel – Tenses And Would Anyone Read It And Do I Have To Pay A Lot To Publish?


hi, i am 20 and when i was younger i wrote this diary account sort of thing of my life – which was not a conventional one lol and it’s come to about 150,000 words – which is longgg. ive been scrolling through it now thinking how crazy i was as a teen and although i wouldnt want to publish it as it is now i have taken bits out of it to make chapters based around the same happenings.
i would like to publish something from it actually just because there are bits of it i am proud of creatively and i would like to communicate some of the messages in there to young people. i am on about 40,000 words, my issue is, it’s kind of in a biography style while i explain my life style in the past tense but then i like to go into the present tense when i am using a lot of dialogue and going into the scene – as if i am looking back on the time and the reader can get drawn in to what is ‘presently’ happening. can i do this though? i don’t think i’ve ever read a novel which does that, does it like defy the laws of authorship or something?
Also i have no idea how to go about seeing if i could publish it…it will be a novel surrounding mental illness and the behaviour of young girl who immerses herself in a dangerous life at night, whilst still at school, she escapes the madness via a loving relationship which becomes abusive and i am unsure how to end it because the situation is still open…so it’s based around the truth but to make it interesting and less painful to write i’m going to fabricate some of it…but i don’t know what market to aim this at and if i should bother at all…it feels like it could be a bit self indulgent and like no one wants to read about any of that anyway…but writing is the best form of therapy i have found, anyway i would like to hear opinions! the possible titles i have come up with so far aree ‘Secret life of a Cambridge school girl’ (pun on ‘secret life of a london call girl’ – because it’s a similar story), ‘Stockholm Syndrome begins in London’ or ‘Becoming Dolly’ – which focus’ more on the abusive relationship part of the story. anyway, any advice would be greatly appreciated. thanks, Laura

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What Is This Clause Saying Exactly?


I just got offered a position and this legal clause sounds like anything I make, for the company or on my own becomes the companies property. Is this true?
You agree that you will promptly make full written disclosure to the Company, will hold in trust for the sole right and benefit of the Company, and hereby assign to the Company, or its designee, all right, title, and interest in and to any and all inventions, original works of authorship, developments, concepts, improvements, designs, discoveries, ideas, trademarks or trade secrets, whether or not patentable or registrable under copyright or similar laws, which are solely or jointly conceive or develop or reduce to practice, or cause to be conceived or developed or reduced to practice, during the period of time you are an employee of the Company (collectively referred to as “Inventions”). You further acknowledge that all original works of authorship which are made by you (solely or jointly with others) within the scope of and during the period of your employment with the Company and which are protectable by copyright are “works made for hire,” as that term is defined in the United States Copyright Act. You understand and agree that the decision whether or not to commercialize or market any invention developed by me solely or jointly with others is within the Company’s sole discretion and for the Company’s sole benefit and that no royalty will be due to me as a result of the Company’s efforts to commercialize or market any such invention.

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