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Violanthe
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PostIn the meantime... your idea got used

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:26 pm
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Ever been working on a concept or a story and then a book, movie, etc comes out with an essential story element that's exactly the same?
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DougGogerty
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:43 pm
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Yes and no. I was writing this story, and reading this anthology from the 50's. It turns out Asimov wrote my story 40 years before I did, and he did it better. I cannot believe he would stoop to stealing my ideas. Damn time viewing devices.
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Nik
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PostUm, how many 'Basic Plots' ??

Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:14 pm
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Um, several of my tales have been around for decades. In that time, I've been told that their notion was 'totally implausible', then 'unlikely', then, 'oh, we've too much like that'...

Funny part was their basic ideas had been explored back in the 50s, I'd just found a different spin...

BTW, did I post a link to the RedMoon Horror site, full of old, oft-creaky yet still scary nape-hair risers ??
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Queen Of The Abyss
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:55 am
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When I was in high school I once wrote a story where the main element was fog. A couple of weeks later I read the Stephen King short story "The Mist". I was a little worried at first but then the King story took a different path. It doesn't much matter anyway because the tale I wrote wasn't very good.
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Violanthe
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Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:21 am
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How close does a story or concept have to be in order to be to close to develop your own story?
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