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This is a huge issue for anyone hoping to get an agent or publisher for their work. If the world can already see the story, why should a publisher waste his time!

Absolutely right. A person is very unlikely to steal something that they don't even know is out there. If a person has to get a membership to access the forums then they have to put a lot more effort into their crookedness then a simple google search that a monkey can do. And they are easier to tack and catch.

Logged out, I was able to access this group, find the thread on Janet Reid's book, Northern Skies, and copy part of her novel!

Black John chuckled.  “Aye, but only because I don’t want to miss witnessing the young lord Aiden’s long overdue rebuke.”
The mentioning of Aiden’s name forced Matthew to replace pleasant thoughts with not so pleasant ones.  He needed to focus on today’s pursuit at some point.
Although he believed Catherine when she had stated her brother meant him no harm, he wasn’t about to extend the courtesy to Aiden until he proved himself wor-thy of Matthew’s trust.  Matthew also knew that sitting down with the young Lord Aiden and reasonably discussing the finer points of border politics in a civilised way wasn’t going to be enough to bring Aiden around.
Today’s raid on Aiden Tower was to serve the sole purpose of showing the younger man what the stakes were.  And Aiden was about to make an important de-cision, whether he liked it or not.

I don't have to be a member of the site or know anything beyond very rudimentary computer skills.

It would be a nice thought to use a pen name, but I have already put my real name on it and there is no way to change that unless I close my account and open a new one. So it is not an easy fix.

Moreover, people can still steal drafts to our work (or parts of drafts) and find out "spoilers" via the forums. So if we tried to protect our intellectual property on the forums, we would have to avoid using character names or giving our book titles.

How can I ask if this name or circumstanced works if I trying to avoid saying the actual character name or the name of the book?

Some authors are told by their publishers or literary agents that their book can't be up public anywhere and that would include open forum discussions. So these authors now have to delete the forums that mentioned their stories. (A difficult task that might be hard to do if they did not open the thread.)

Truth is we thought the forums were a lot more secure then they actually are. And this is unnerving.

I can also add in a little with Drech's thoughts. Better? Even more needed?

While the servants made fires, Drech and Orson talked.
“You shall have to be careful with this charade, Drech,” Orson said. “A man's training, upbringing, habits, always come out.”
“I was born a prince and am playing one,” Drech said. “I doubt anyone will suspect I am more, unless one of the knights calls me Dominus' or an Eire has seen me before in Albion.”
As he spoke, Drech realized that both situations were highly likely. The sooner he got to Teamhair and addressed the Ard Ri the better it would be.
“Perhaps,” Orson mused. “Yet you have adapted to your role as Pendragon, and I believe that does come out in your behavior.”
Drech could not help but smile at his mentor's words. Less than three and a half years before, he had to convince Orson that he was ready to claim his inheritance.
But a new thought spun in Drech's mind.
We can tell a man's true upbringing by the way he behaves!
“Excuse, me, Lord,” he said, aloud. “Captain Samyl, Sir Elisedd, I am in need of your assistance.”
The two men rose immediately and followed Drech away from the camp. When they had walked far enough away that Drech was sure the rest of the party could not hear them, he addressed Sir Elisedd.
“You read in Latin, Sir-Knight,” Drech said.
Sir Elisedd knight hesitated, knitting his brow in confusion. “I… do…”
“A Gewissae knight,” Drech said. “A Saxon 'ridend' learn to read in Latin. I do not believe it.”
“I had an excellent education, Dominus.”
“Too excellent, Sir. Speaking Latin and Brythonic one might expect in this age, but to read so fluently in Latin? You must have had the best education in Gewisland!”
“King Acca paid for my tutoring,” Sir Elisedd replied. “He was most generous.”
“That is generous,” Drech mused. “That he should pay for a knight to have a better education then many a prince.”
The Giwessae's jaw dropped and for a moment he could not utter a sound. “I… do not–”
“Chose your words carefully, Sir,” Drech warned.
Sir Elisedd sighed, surrendering. “I am no knight. I am a prince. I am the Prince of Tiwton.”
“King Acca's heir,” Drech mused.
“Yea,” Sir Elisedd muttered, reverting to the language of the Saxons.
“You should have told me.”
“I obeyed my father's wishes and joined your cavalry in secret,” Sir Elisedd replied. “How could I then tell you I was a prince?”
“You could because you had to,” Drech said. “Lord Orson did not choose you. He picked all of the other men to be in my Guard, but not you. I picked you. I told Orson that I wanted you to be in my Guard because I trusted you with my life.”
“And now you no longer.”
“How can I? When dozens of princes on both islands want me dead, and here I find a secret prince in my own Guard!”
Sir Elisedd nodded in silence.
“Go back to the others,” Drech said. “We shall not speak on this now.”
The Gewissae went without another word, and Drech turned to Captain Samyl.
“What do you think?” Drech asked.
“I do not know, Dominus,” the Captain replied.
“Neither do I.”
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I think we should all try to protect our intellectual property.

If a writer gets famous, then people start selling illegally obtained drafts of that writer's books. It happens all the time. Drafts from old books that are already published and drafts from new ones that are still being workshopped.

I don't expect to ever "make it big" but still, better to be overly cautious now, and then have the ability to choose to be lenient later. Then to be careless now, and have no control later on.

I can change the spelling to "Sgathach" if you think that is better? Let me know!

I see what you mean, but I think the male stuff is still too explicit.

Most women do not know their correct bra size, (Myself included until I got professionally fitted!) so why should I believe that a fictional man could guess a bra size correctly? And what is the point of the character or the narration mentioning an actual clothing size when the story is not centered around shopping? It can just as easily say her breast were the size of cantaloupes. Or describe how her cleavage looks. Why say "She must wear a Double D!" ? I think it is all the "big cock contest" only altered to fit female anatomy.

Your list of likes about the movie were my complaints! But we cannot all enjoy the same stuff I guess...

I would like to see a historical account of Queen Gorgo though. That would be interesting!

I blame my husband too!

Ironically he hated it almost as much as I did! I got back at him by making him watch The Princess Frog

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh! Don't talk about 300! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Ok, I'm ok. I'm ok.

Perhaps my error is in the description. Neither the soldiers nor the Angle warriors are not eight deep. They are only about four deep. This is about three and a half feet for either side (three and a half feet for the Britannae and three and a half for the Angles.) Beyond that is many feet of space. If all of the archers shot they would have to shoot very high to get the arrows over their own men (which is risky) but not so far as the arrows would pass over enemy and be wasted.

One of the reasons the medieval kings had to order hundreds of thousands of arrows to be made is that most ended up stuck in the ground because of random shooting. Drech isn't a medieval ruler/general, as he was brought up with the Roman precision warfare training. He would not tell the archers to shoot when he knows that for most of the men, their arrows would end up in their own soldiers or stuck in the ground and wasted. There are other times where Drech tells all of the archers to shoot, but that is because the enemy is spread out before them or their is space between the enemy and their own men, making the risk of killing their own a none-issue.

Sorry the scene ended up being so confusing.
I will try to go into much more detail as to the layout and Drech's judgment/choices so that it is more clear.

I suppose it makes sense to try to use something that is older. But I have written "kidnapped" in my stories only to have readers want it replaced with the more modern "abducted," so I'm not sure the age of a word or age of the spelling of a word really matters. I don't know. I have always used American English Spelling, so I'll just stick with that.