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I want to start a writing blog, but I am so scared of people stealing my work. I joined a writing community in the past (I was 13, 3 years ago) and posted some of my writings. Some of the people there told me I could get published... I just thought back to that and it is making me want to write again. I have no idea if I should make it a side blog or how to go about this at all. Haha sorry this is so jumbled up, do you have any advice? By the way, I love your work so much

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I think you should go ahead and make a main writing blog, not a side writing blog. If you really enjoy writing so much, why not make it as prominent as possible within the Tumblr community?

Also, if you were told you could get published at age 13, who knows what could happen now, three years later? That’s pretty great, to have that much talent at such a young age.

As for your concern about people stealing your work, you have several protection options.

The thing is, if someone ever plagiarizes you, it will be very easy to prove that they did so because you will have the date stamps on your own work on your blog to provide as evidence.

For example, you might have written a piece and posted it to your blog on the date of January 4, and this person might plagiarize your piece and post it to their blog with a date stamp of January 23. Date stamps don’t lie, and the fact that yours was earlier helps prove that you wrote the piece earlier, and therefore this person plagiarized you.

You can also email Tumblr Support and provide them with links to your writing pieces and date stamps, and compare them to the date stamps and plagiarized pieces of the other person. Tumblr Support, if given enough evidence, and generally the dates/links are enough, will remove the person’s blog for you.

You can also get a Creative Commons license for your blog, which helps prove that you retain copyrights to your work.

So you have several ways to protect yourself and your writing against plagiarism.

I would go for it! Sharing your work on your blog can be one of the best experiences you’ve ever had. :)


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