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Ugh... Great minds thinking alike in the fan fic world
mare:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 01, 2008, 11:15:09 PM ---I'm kind of curious about which stories this happened with. lol
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LOL sometimes all you have to do is read story titles or summaries.
Purpura Lipstick:
This is one of the reasons I don't read a lot of fanfiction. I know that if I read more stories I would "steal" ideas and then my stories would sound similar to them, but if I don't read any I can honestly say "I didn't know you had a plot line like that too."
My honest opinion would be to stop reading the story even though you like it.
Sakabelle:
--- Quote from: MellzBellz on February 01, 2008, 11:15:50 PM ---Well I left her a review telling her I enjoyed the story and appreciated the direction she was taking it in especially because I am writing a story similair in plot and some of the events were sort of similair by coincidence. I found her AIM name on AC so I'm going to try to IM her and explain myself a lil better to cover myself and assure her that I'm NOT ripping her off. Cuz I know if I were in her position I'd be like Uhh what the hell?
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Oh my... Mel, after I was done on the forum I went to check my favourite stories list to see if anything had been updated, and I see a new review on my absolute favourite. Curious, I click in because I'm always interested in people's differing opinions on this differing story. The author of this story and I have been reviewing and talking back and forth for a little while, she's really sweet. If anything I think she'll find it interesting that you had the same idea as her.
Yay! Two stories filled with awesomeness. I'll have to read yours now too! hehe
RokofAges75:
Aww, that sucks, Mel! I would go ahead and write the story the way you want to write it. You might contact the other writer and just tell her. This thread is here as "proof" that you've had this idea going for awhile before posting it.
I don't know that it's happened to me where I've thought of an idea and then found a similar story before getting mine up before... but I have worried that people would think I was copying before, and I have also been contacted by other authors worrying that people would think they were copying me.
Broken was totally inspired by Swollen Issues, and I have always admitted that, but I didn't set out to COPY Swollen Issues. I wanted to take the inspiration and write a story that would make my readers feel the same way I did when I read Swollen, but I obviously wanted to do something different with it so that I wouldn't be copying. There were a lot of similarities between the two at first, but I took Broken in a different direction, and by the end of the two series, hardly any similarities at all.
Awhile after I started writing Code Blue, Kat or Amy (I don't think either of them are on here, but some of you know who I'm talking about) contacted me about their Backstreet General series, which had the same premise of the Boys being doctors. They had been working on it for about as long as we had been working on CB, without realizing our story existed, and they were worried we would see their stories and think they had copied when they hadn't. It didn't bother me because I knew both of them, knew they wouldn't do that, and could see that their story was similar only in the basic premise, not the way it was written or actual storylines.
I don't think I've ever been totally copied, except the blatant plagiarism of Tanja.
MellzBellz:
--- Quote from: Sakabelle on February 01, 2008, 11:31:09 PM ---Oh my... Mel, after I was done on the forum I went to check my favourite stories list to see if anything had been updated, and I see a new review on my absolute favourite. Curious, I click in because I'm always interested in people's differing opinions on this differing story. The author of this story and I have been reviewing and talking back and forth for a little while, she's really sweet. If anything I think she'll find it interesting that you had the same idea as her.
Yay! Two stories filled with awesomeness. I'll have to read yours now too! hehe
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Oh yea I LOVE the story! I think its REALLY well written and she's an amazing writer. We'd prolly get along great since we seem to think along the same lines lol
And thanks Sakabelle. My story is actually a sequel, but you can prolly read it without reading the first one. I purposely tried to fill in as much for new readers as possible.
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