Afraid to Talk About This… Honestly.. Why? Because so many writers are so uninformed, they think they need to “copyright” a work before they have protection. Uhhh, no, copyright protection is automatic when you put a creative work into a form. If you have a desire to be a writer, learn copyright. But there are reasons to register copyright. Especially here in the US. Kris and I have made it a long practice to register every work that is getting sniffed at by movies or television or streaming or gaming. But a lot of our novels and short stories, we have not registered. (For you uninformed out there, that does…