While I do get that the RPG market is different, with fiction, the comparative publications are different. I mean, there are only so many places where adventures and d20 writing can get published. With fiction, the options of places to submit work are much broader. So while on the one hand, you're publishing in the RPG market, with the fiction, you don't have to be. (It reminds me of working at Barnes and Noble in Boston. The people working in the cafe got paid a lot more money, because B&N had to compete, rates wise, with Starbucks--rather than with bookstores. I don't know that that's a valid comparison, but that's what it makes me think of.)
At this point, unless I'm contracted directly to work in someone else's IP, I won't give up rights. I honestly feel I should have taken a little better care of my IP rights in some of the work I've already done. If it's a completely original piece of work, I won't submit it to a place where I can't retain the rights after a certain period of time.
But then, I don't pay to submit work to contests either (unless my entry fee covers, say, a year's subscription to the magazine to which I'm submitting). So everyone's line about what they will and won't submit to is a little different.
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At this point, unless I'm contracted directly to work in someone else's IP, I won't give up rights. I honestly feel I should have taken a little better care of my IP rights in some of the work I've already done. If it's a completely original piece of work, I won't submit it to a place where I can't retain the rights after a certain period of time.
But then, I don't pay to submit work to contests either (unless my entry fee covers, say, a year's subscription to the magazine to which I'm submitting). So everyone's line about what they will and won't submit to is a little different.