As a writer, do you blog? How do you stop people from stealing your ideas?

I never blogged, I was always concerned people could steal your ideas. Any thoughts to why you do or do not blog?

I never blog. This forum is the closest I get.

You can't stop other writers from stealing your ideas. All the best writers steal. Do you think Shakespeare was the first person to write "Romeo and Juliet"? Not hardly. But he was the first one to say: "Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,/Take him and cut him out into little stars,/ And he will make the face of heaven so fine/ That all the world will be in love with night/ and pay no worship to the garish sun." (act 3, scene 2)

Steal, Steal, Steal - its rule number one - So say Dufresne and Stephen King. I use snippets from songs and things all the time. Its called inspiration and homage. Does the fact that Shakespeare wrote this piece about the night sky mean that I can't equate the stars to my lover? Of course not. Someone centuries before good old Willie decided to put the great and beautiful among the stars. The most important thing is to filter it all through your own perception and make it something better.

Actually, no one can steal your exact idea and there are no new plots under the sun. As long as they don't copy it verbatim from your work and then sign their name to it, its not plagiarism. All you can do is save dated drafts and put the word "Copyright" on everything you publish online.

I guess I should get around to answering the question, huh? I do not blog because when you write something down it is permanent. Some things should be permanent, some things should fade away. I don't want my children to Google me some day and come up with a ranting blog I wrote when I was young and stupid. Not to mention perspective employers and publishers. Make sense? I do keep a hand-written journal though, mainly for family history reasons.

Although I do consider myself a writer, I have never blogged for the same reason I have never kept a journal for very long; I can never keep up with it! I will set up an account, write a few blogs, and forget about the whole project.

The Internet has lead to quite a few ideas being stolen from writers, and so the best way to stop those ideas from being taken is to not talk about your ideas at all on the Internet. You can still blog, but I would recommend not sharing your ideas or posting your stories for review.

I occasionally blog on myspace or livejournal but I never put anything online that I'm concerned other people will be able to steal. Don't get many hits on either but sometimes it's a way to get ideas out of my head that have nothing to do with what I'm working out.

The you have to be careful with blogging or any other written medium is with what you say. Especially with the internet. Google will pull up a lot more than you realize and if you can find it that way other people can too.

I never blogged at all. And it would cause me trouble if I tell people what i thinks in my writing career.

To stop people from stealing my thoughts is not to tell them what or how I come up with a story. Though, with my friends I just tell them the story and not on how I make it. I would only tell it to people if I've already published it. Just like what many writers do when they've been interviewed.

I blog, but I never blog about my "original" ideas for the same reason I no longer post my stories on the internet. The issues I blog about are related to life and the things I know, so if anyone steals ideas...meh...it's all been said before. I just put my own weird twist to it. =]