: Re: I would like to illustrate a poem I am an artist and want to illustrate a poem and self publish it for my family. The poem was written in the early 1900's and is on LibraVox as a work

If the work is in public domain, you can do mostly anything with it - including creating derivative works, in particular illustrations.

If it was still copyrighted, you'd still probably be able to create illustrations but they wouldn't do much good as stand-alone, and bundling them with the original work would require license to use the original work for the compound product.

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: Re: I would like to illustrate a poem I am an artist and want to illustrate a poem and self publish it for my family. The poem was written in the early 1900's and is on LibraVox as a work

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: Do readers enjoy self-administered vigilante justice? Or do they prefer moral heroes? Let me put it this way: A common trope in American popular fiction is the hero who lives by his

: Regarding the substance of your question: The maxim that Robert McKee passes along in Story is â€œgive the readers what they expect, but not the way they expect itâ€. Your first option, where

: This is extremely rare and very difficult to execute smoothly. While switching into present tense when the action picks up is usually fine, it's very difficult to create a smooth transition

: Think of everything in the story in terms of "actors". Do they appear near enough to be confusable? Do they appear in contexts where one can be confused with the other? In your case

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: Re: I would like to illustrate a poem I am an artist and want to illustrate a poem and self publish it for my family. The poem was written in the early 1900's and is on LibraVox as a work

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: Do readers enjoy self-administered vigilante justice? Or do they prefer moral heroes? Let me put it this way: A common trope in American popular fiction is the hero who lives by his

: Regarding the substance of your question: The maxim that Robert McKee passes along in Story is â€œgive the readers what they expect, but not the way they expect itâ€. Your first option, where

: This is extremely rare and very difficult to execute smoothly. While switching into present tense when the action picks up is usually fine, it's very difficult to create a smooth transition

: Think of everything in the story in terms of "actors". Do they appear near enough to be confusable? Do they appear in contexts where one can be confused with the other? In your case

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