If honestly she "got inspired" from many poets. >o>
... I don't really want to talk about it anymore. I kinda still feel hurt, since it happened just this February. ._. Our relationships quickly turned for the worst, 'cause there were some other argues and... well, yeah.

-hides in cloud and hums- theme chaaange.

lmfao.

Self-publishing (publishing from your own money/paying a small publishing house to print your book) is not really publishing at all. Sorry, it's a scam, too. Your teacher got her just deserts in the end just by self-publishing the book.

If the publishing house isn't paying you, you're not really published. You might as well go to the office supplies store and bind the books yourself for all the good it'll do. And then, for good measure, pay everyone you come across to read it or take it off your hands.

@Yuki:

Yes, thievery is the highest form of flattery. Chances are, if someone stole your work, they were just jealous they couldn't do the same or better.

What matters to me is that they're out in the book format, she has gifted them to friends and even sold some part to random people. And, heck, I don't care about the publishing fact so much as the fact she did it in the first place. It could as well be written on toilet paper and handed out some people and it was still wrong of her to do it.

Well of course no it's still not okay but kids do stupid things like that. If adults do it they deserve no mercy. :/

Sadrain@ Well obviously she is a bitch. I'm sure she knows it as well. She must not care though.

I fret if only this or that wasn't inspired by something I have read so no one could say I am not original, that I am stealing stuff, but she blatantly went out and stole it. Ugh.
Okay, I am gonna be quiet now.

Her victory is hollow. She's showing off the poetry to her friends and family with pride she doesn't possess, because she knows the poetry isn't hers. It's completely worthless. She paid for something that's worthless, she knows it's worthless. I bet every compliment is probably like a knife to the gut for her, but she keeps on lying to her self and others because she thinks that's what she needs to feel accomplished.

I find her story extremely sad, to be honest. The fact that she self-published stolen poetry speaks volumes about how low her self-esteem must be. She might not show it, but obviously the woman is full of self doubt and self loathing to the point where she just thought seeing her name in print would make it "better", no matter what the name was attached to.

It's a pity that you got hurt in all the mess, but just know that you still came out the better in the end of it all. You wrote poetry that someone thought was good enough to steal and be used as a source of pride and attention.

*plops down* o.o;;

Yeah...one day she might realize "omg what the fuck did I do" and there's nothing she can do to be forgiven or make it undone.

Well, it's not like every poem was stolen. XD And I think the guilt is probably already chasing her. -sigh-
Yeah, mom told me to look at it the same way and I am trying to. XD I suppose I should be proud, lmao? I am just sad the poems she made were worse than my originals. <o< And they were still the best out of them all. =o=; I am not trying to sound prideful right now, but yeah. I wasn't first to say that. <o<

I don't even know if I'm supposed to be making a portfolio on the Writer's Diary section.

No one appears to even be posting there. Maybe it's just for people who want to be Trisphee writers or something?

Bah. All my writing is on my deviantArt account anyways. I guess I should just stick a link to that somewhere.

Oh, and about self-publishing... Well, lot of people do that in our country since publishing companies don't really look for poets to publish poetry from. Some stories sometims get published, but not really poetry.

I never know when some thread is open, that's why I keep quiet. XDD

If there's no (under construction) or (do not post), you're free to post in a thread.

And... that sounds like a sad country for aspiring writers. Because self-publishing really, really isn't publishing. I only hope that it's more honest there than it is in the States and the UK and such. The self-publishing that I know of is... downright traumatic to writers. You have all the hope and joy of being published and then find that not only do you have to pay a printing fee, a title fee, and a $50-a-page "reader's fee", but you also have to sell the book yourself, design your own cover, and the binding is slap-dash quality and pages often fall out, are missing, are upside-down.

In real publishing, the publishing house finds manuscripts and pays the author a flat rate to begin with. The books have to make back that flat rate, and then for every dollar over the flat rate you get a percentage of the sales. It's a gamble for publishing houses, which is why they try and find the best book out there to publish, and why getting published when it's done right is such an honor to writers.

Well, unless you own/work for/parents own/you have connections with the publishing house. Then you get Twilight. And there is no honor there.

Well, she took it that way. XD I drew my own side of the cover and it was badly binded. There are more advanced options, of course, but those cost more.
And, yep, we're not very nice to new authors, except there are some contest for teenage books, but I haven't seen anything good win that one. >o> Well, it's not like we don't get any books published, but poetry isn't very popular and such.

We don't evevn publish translated books much anymore, due to crisis and stuff. <o<; And all the books are supah expensive now. Dx

Book prices have gone up everywhere but I still found the ones I buy okay...