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Ahoy mateys!

[This was/is written for a thread on a file sharing site where my work has been pirated.]


Hello. It's Me (though I won't use D/s after this) and this is my file being stolen. I'm not here to yell. 

I'm not a company. I'm an individual sex worker who makes her living solely through her work. 

I'm also a gamer, I've been on the internet for an awfully long time, and I don't think I'm unreasonable...at least I hope not. :)

I don't know how much theft impacts me. I don't know if I'm losing sales because people are downloading something they would've bought...or if it's purely people who wouldn't have bought anyway. Since I'm not a company, but just myself...it's difficult to tell.

One of my big concerns is that unlike big music names where piracy actually helps them in many ways, it doesn't with me. I'm not a 'big name', and I also don't ID myself and where to find/buy my work on every recording because I find that to be intrusive to the listener. But it also means that a theft doesn't mean additional sales because there's no identification as such on the files to upsell. 

There's also a part of me that's flattered by this too, I'll be perfectly honest. The thought 'Woot, I'm good enough to steal' did run through my mind. :)

But it also creates worries too. Recording sales are a very substantial part of my income. I don't want to make changes that are considerably more work to me, and I don't want to make changes that would adversely impact the people who ARE paying. 

So what do I do? Just send out the DMCA notices, recognizing that I'm patching holes in a sieve? Do I wait until it is seriously impacting my income, then enact changes that suck? Do I go the route of some bigger companies and go w/ an attorney that will just file RIAA type suits? (Fuck no on that last, I'd rather go broke than be like the RIAA). 

I don't know. I really don't. So the only thing I could think of at this point beyond having one of my boys handle the DMCA stuff (to have the files pulled, and defend my copyright), and coming here and honestly telling you my end. 

If you like my work, and can afford to do so, please buy it*. I also actually do give away files for free sometimes. :) 

You can also follow me on twitter https://twitter.com/TrancewithMe , and I even respond to emails. 

Thanks for reading if you did. And thank you even more if it made any difference. 

M

*[edit: It was suggested I link to where you can buy! You can buy My titles at NiteFlirt or Clippette currently.] 

Creativity

Many moons ago, in another lifetime, I had the pleasure of talking at length with an elderly romance novelist. She was fascinating. And she recognized in me a creative kindred spirit. This may be why I enjoy writers so much, it can be a very similar process in some ways. This writer was very prolific and traveled quite a bit doing promotions and book signings and the like. 

And THE most annoying question was: Where do you get your ideas?

I told her to tell them she puts a penny in the idea machine. I don't know to this day I've ever heard someone laugh so hard, for so long. 

Don't eat the green ones they're not ripe yet. 

I got it though. And that's also what made it so funny. You see, creativity is inspired by everything. It happens in those quiet moments, maybe you're sitting on the toilet (what an image!) or in the shower. Or even just sitting around daydreaming. It's about allowing your mind to drift into 'What if...' or 'What about...' 

Most creative ideas are like pancakes, the first few are quite lumpy and misshapen.

Don't look at meeeeee! Don't loooooook at meeeeeeeee!

I suspect this is where many people give up, or never move past this moment. Once that spell is broken, and the analytical mind starts to examine, it falls apart. Or even worse, some people simply dismiss their flights of fancy and can't even recall them moments later. 

These are seeds.

And most do not land on fertile soil. 

Shit! I thought I planted hundreds. 

When I create my recordings, most of the time I am not working from a script, or even an outline. It's not utterly spontanous though. These are seeds cast over time that gradually sprout into something...magical. The internal process of watering, weeding, and nuturing these wee sprouts defies description. 

Then it takes on a life of its own.

I set aside large portions of time just to think. Simply to sit and think about these ideas, to work grubbily in the garden. I also have to make time for this, sometimes an idea needs immediate attention, and to ignore that means that it is very possible the idea will wither and die, or never reach the potential it could have had. 

It cannot be rushed. It cannot be forced. I have ideas that still have not come to fruitition years later...but they are still growing and developing. Other ideas spring forth like Jack's mythical bean stalk...growing, bursting, demanding immediate attention, rising high as the sky. 

Oh, this isn't going to end well...

I'm off, to put another penny in the idea machine. It's always full you see, because the Universe is infinite. 

How are you nuturing your seeds?