First message

By pinelopikappa · Oct 6, 2009 · 503 · 2
  1. So, we can post absolutely anything here? I've attempted some blog-writing in the past, but it ended after a couple of messages.

    Ok, here is my first message.
    I got an e-mail from a friend about an incident that happened to a young woman in my hometown. It sounds like an urban legend to me, but there is the actual police report of what happened.
    It involves a car, an old lady, no old lady, a bag, a cleaver, some traffic lights and some serious guts.
    Now, given the fact that it's a true story, can I just fill in the gaps and turn it into a short story of my own, or do I have to forever apologize for all the borrowing?
    I am after all part of the tradition of many writers producing their own version of the same old story.
    What do you think?

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  1. Bick
    Well, I don't see anything wrong with writing it in your own way. If I remember right, I remember Cogito saying that there is no new plot, and that it's all just basically the same plots used and written in different ways.

    EDIT:

    "There are, practically speaking, no new plot ideas. It's not about the plot idea, it's how you write it that makes or breaks your story." Cogito

    :-D So yeah, it sounds like a fun idea... poor woman, though!
    Bick, Oct 6, 2009
  2. pinelopikappa
    You are right, I remember that post by Cogito. I'll do it!
    Thanks!
    pinelopikappa, Oct 6, 2009
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