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Bones:
I just started reading the first book of a new series and I already have a list of at least five elements in the world building that are strikingly similar to elements in the story I've been writing. It's truly bizarre. I'm at the point where I just start laughing when a new one crops up. ::)
Aminar:
Gotta love when you look at everything you've come up with and smack yourself because between when you made them and now you've come across someone doing something incredibly similar. My biggest problem. Brandon Sanderson.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Closest I've had to that happening was Mark Millar's Superman: Red Son, which is a DC universe Elseworld in which Superman lands in the Ukraine in 1939, is brought up as Stalin's heir and a sincere believer in truth, justice and the Soviet way, and takes over the world in a genuinely benevolent dictatorship which works because he has superhuman intelligence and superhuman benevolence. The pitch I'd been planning had Superman's arrival on Earth be the Tunguska explosion, and was going to be framed by an aging Bruce Wayne sending Lois Lane to interview the Superman, but other than that was very similar, and is now totally pointless. Which is annoying because while most of Red Son is much better than anything I could come up with, there are elements of the end that do not quite work for me in ways that are annoying to me.
Frogge:
Quantus, Thanks for answering my question (back on page 2).
Saw a Garrison Keillor "Prairie Home Companion" Summer Love concert last week & was blown away by his mastery of timing and pacing and lyrical imagery. He did a couple of erotic bits that delighted me away without ever saying anything explicit. Made me want to get back to writing, which I haven't done much of the past two years.
Must get the house organized first. Am actually beginning to make notable progress in a few spots.
Enjorous:
...when a side project becomes more interesting to you then the main project it was supposed to supplement, despite having next to no conflict.
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