[ SECRET POST #2541 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2541 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Once you write it will become original.

[intrigueing]

This. A lot of stories start off as rip-offs (most fiction genres arise from lots of people copying a popular story, after all), but not having to come up with the template from scratch launches you into writing, and once you start writing you may drastically alter your story as it progresses based on the new paths that writing opens up to you until you're writing totally original stuff.

Hell, you may even later go back and edit out a lot of the earlier unoriginal framework, like so much scaffolding on a statue.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed.
I personally get inspired by other stories, like a certain element that I borrow and expand upon. To avoid writing a story too similar to the original material, I always wait about two months before deciding whether or not to consider it a serious project. It usually would've grown away from the source and into it's own by that point, if I still remember it.

[sootyowl]

This.

Go for it, OP. The work will change and progress as you continue writing it.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly! I mean, look at Harry Potter.

It's traditional "School Story" with wizards.

Or you could even call it a co-ed derivative of "The Worst Witch" series.

Add in some folklore and the author's personal experiences, and whammo! One of the most popular series of current times.

Someone mentioned TV Tropes below. I actually use it when I read/watch something that I liked, but I can't put my finger on exactly which elements I was gravitating towards. So then I end up looking up other series with similar tropes, because tropes are tropes for a reason.