tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7551827356661227704.post4045861855650566928..comments2023-07-28T08:49:32.133-07:00Comments on PENS WITHOUT INK: Do you trust your writing group?N.E. Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17257202070702479903noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7551827356661227704.post-90109749858618722572013-09-07T12:07:26.154-07:002013-09-07T12:07:26.154-07:00Inspiration can sometimes be seen as imitation by ...Inspiration can sometimes be seen as imitation by a lesser person. Some are offended by someone using the same concept/idea and when it's transformed they see what could have been. I know I can identify my inspirations, some have given me new story ideas and some have just inspired me. I worry myself if I take, even if I did change it and make it my own. It's quite the issue, but it's all my own demons. <br /><br />I don't know who said the first quote but I will play Devils advocate...<br /><br /><br />"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."<br />From Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self Reliance.T.D. Ceragiolihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04530354898088505279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7551827356661227704.post-90678695807554482862013-09-05T18:01:29.254-07:002013-09-05T18:01:29.254-07:00Thanks for commenting! I think it's a complime...Thanks for commenting! I think it's a compliment too, although I have mixed feelings about it still. Like what if someone wanted to do fanfiction for my novel? I'd be flattered and a little intimidated all at the same time.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09703351385901876639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7551827356661227704.post-50791130822902939012013-09-01T22:22:07.441-07:002013-09-01T22:22:07.441-07:00Interesting proposal.
I agree that there is a ge...Interesting proposal. <br /><br />I agree that there is a general rule that all people follow (unless you're Zuckerberg or Jobs) that dictates that one does not steal another persons work. That being said, I do agree that if there wasn't some form of "copying" we wouldn't have True Blood, Interview With The Vampire, Twilight (shudder), etc. While I can not recall at the moment, I'm sure someone wrote about Vampires before Bram Stoker did. While I personally deplore Twilight, Stephanie Meyer did take a common topic and make it uniquely her own.<br /><br />Imitation is a compliment... an annoying compliment... and I don't know who said it. ;-)<br />Miss Adventurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00899420389725648571noreply@blogger.com