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I'm wondering if I can get sued for what I'm currently writing. I've been getting mixed advice and was wondering if there are lawyers here that could settle my worries.
My book that I'm writing Unsung Zeros, is a fiction books, with some fictional retelling of events that have actually happened in my past. I'm hoping to self-publish this book, under a pen name. I've also changed all descriptions, and names of any real life people.
I'll explain farther. You see I have two MC's. Sam and Alex, Alex's flashbacks about her bullying episodes in grade school are based on things that have happened to me (I say based because I've compressed and changed some actual events, so things that happened over years happened in single events and such) and the characters i used are based on real people, but again I've changed names and as these character grow up there lives and personalities become completely fictional.
For example. The twins that actually ruined my life, in real life as of now (getting my info from Facebook) they are married with children, in the book they are in college and party animals, and since I've not seen are talked to them since i was in 8th grade, I've completely made up there personalities.
I've changed the town this all happens in, and unless they read it which i doubt any of them will, I'm pretty sure they still wouldn't figure out it was about them even if they did.
I've gotten mixed reactions and answers about all of this, half saying don't worry about it for a number of reasons, others saying, don't bother continuing. So thank you for any info you can give me.
I'm wondering if I can get sued for what I'm currently writing. I've been getting mixed advice and was wondering if there are lawyers here that could settle my worries.
My book that I'm writing Unsung Zeros, is a fiction books, with some fictional retelling of events that have actually happened in my past. I'm hoping to self-publish this book, under a pen name. I've also changed all descriptions, and names of any real life people.
I'll explain farther. You see I have two MC's. Sam and Alex, Alex's flashbacks about her bullying episodes in grade school are based on things that have happened to me (I say based because I've compressed and changed some actual events, so things that happened over years happened in single events and such) and the characters i used are based on real people, but again I've changed names and as these character grow up there lives and personalities become completely fictional.
For example. The twins that actually ruined my life, in real life as of now (getting my info from Facebook) they are married with children, in the book they are in college and party animals, and since I've not seen are talked to them since i was in 8th grade, I've completely made up there personalities.
I've changed the town this all happens in, and unless they read it which i doubt any of them will, I'm pretty sure they still wouldn't figure out it was about them even if they did.
I've gotten mixed reactions and answers about all of this, half saying don't worry about it for a number of reasons, others saying, don't bother continuing. So thank you for any info you can give me.