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RokofAges75:

--- Quote from: Purpura Lipstick on July 28, 2013, 07:23:29 PM ---I actually had a zombie story forming for a brief amount of time before Song for the Dead went up but it was barely worked out and Rose and Julie with Zombies...lol no competition. Not saying I won't ever use zombies...lol 

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Aww, I never knew that!  Well, it's not like we came up with the idea of dead people coming back to life and eating brains, so zombies are fair game.

RokofAges75:

--- Quote from: mare on July 28, 2013, 07:37:55 PM ---I don't think I've ever refrained from posting something. I would hope that even if a story idea was similar, my writing style and take on the actual idea would be different. Now, if I were to read a few chapters of the other story and see they were very similar, I would most likely make changes to mine but not hold off entirely mainly because it would drive me crazy if i did that!  LOL

I actually do enjoy reading similar plots just to see how different authors interpret the same idea. That's why I love this fairy tale challenge so far. There are four stories and as of right now, four totally different takes on the same exact storyline! I think that's so awesome to see!

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I agree; it is interesting to see how completely different all of the fairy tales have been so far!

RokofAges75:
I have only held off on writing (or at least developing) a story idea once because someone posted something similar.  It was Kelly with her story Fan Friction, which I can't even find on AC anymore, so now I'm wondering if she took it down because it was never finished.  Anyway, I don't remember all the details anymore, but it was a suspense that played on fan fiction.  I'd had a similar-sounding idea that was inspired by Signal to Noise way back in like 2001, but I'd never done anything with it - it was always just one of those ideas I'd had on the back burner to write someday.  I never had a solid outline for mine, but it was one of the ideas I was considering trying to tackle after I finished BMS.  If I'd gone ahead and written it, it probably would have been a lot different from Kelly's, but it's just as well that I didn't.

I remember Hannah started posting Something Beautiful four days after I started working on Curtain Call, and even though she didn't reveal it for awhile, I got that "cancer story" vibe about it right away and was like, "Are you kidding me?!"  But since SB and CC are like two polar opposite takes on the same basic premise, it worked out fine.  There was room for two cancer stories that summer (the more, the merrier!), and I enjoyed reading SB as much as I enjoyed writing CC.

emilo:
There was a story being posted on the site around the same time that I was posting Falling in Love Again that felt oddly similar in some ways, though I felt there were enough differences to see that they were two totally independent story ideas.  It didn't hinder me from posting my own story, but I did find myself wondering once if people who were reading both saw the similarities and wondered if I'd taken her general idea or vice versa.  I agree with Mare in that I hope my writing style and my own spin on things would make mine stand out as original.  I LOVED the other story by the way.  I hope she finishes it someday!

RokofAges75:
Have you ever worried that one of your stories was too similar to something that was posted before it, maybe even another story that helped inspire it?

I know I was worried about that with Broken, because it's never been any big secret that Swollen Issues is what inspired me to write Broken.  It's not like Swollen Issues was the first cancer story in the fandom - I'd read others, and I'd even written one before - but SI is the first one I remember reading that tackled that storyline really well, and that was what inspired me to want to write another.  That is where the whole choppage idea came about, actually, because I knew if I was going to do cancer, I had to find a way to make mine different.  I remember actually brainstorming types of cancer and going, "Hm, if I did bone cancer, he could lose a limb..." and there was the different direction I needed to set mine apart.

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