Original thoughts

By ramedrake · May 12, 2011 · 783 · 4
  1. There isn`t much more annoying than having what you (at least) consider as a really good idea and intending to write it down someday and then finding that some one else has already had it. I had a friend in Nagoya who refused to read any Neil Gaiman as he kept pre-empting her ideas and being adored because of it. Now I have a new nemesis in the form of Mark Hodder who has taken an idea of mine (admitedly one that didn`t require too much of a stretch of the imgination) and turned it into something great. I will fume in my impotence, jealous of his success and keep my ideas to myself in future, boxing them into my inner psyche so no one my usurp me. :mad:

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  1. Brandon P.
    Tell me about it! It seems all the semi-decent plots I devise have something cliche in them.
    Brandon P., May 12, 2011
  2. NateSean
    The solution: Stop thinking and/or talking about it and actually do it.

    How many books are out there now about schools that teach magic? Harry Potter wasn't the first and it won't be the last.

    When you have an idea and you wait too long to execute it, who is to blame when someone else does?
    NateSean, May 12, 2011
  3. mugen shiyo
    wow. you hit it right on the nail. i get really happy when i come up with something i think is original, than i'll be watching a show on tv or a movie (my favorite one's no less) and see my epic idea played out in less than a minute

    after subduing the rage to knock everything in the room down i make a mental note to cross out that brilliant speck of innovation and think of something else "new". this shameless robbery has happened more than once.

    but then again, it's kinda like what NateSean said. Stories have been being made for thousands of years. it's pretty frickin hard to come up with some new material so don't sweat it too much. even the things you think are originals really aren't. "Superman" was actually a rip-off of an older comic called "The Gladiator" and "The Lion King" like sooooooo many American movies thought to be fantastic and original, was a shameless rip-off of a japanese children's movie almost screen for screen.

    point is, if you got a great story, people are going to like it, even if they already heard of something similar. hollywood is mind-boggling proof of that
    mugen shiyo, May 14, 2011
  4. ramedrake
    Thanks for the feed back guys, especially Mugen Shiyo. Better get back to writing that great story. :)
    ramedrake, May 14, 2011
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