I've just started writing again after a hectic end to my college semester and I've hit a brick wall. I'd joined a writing group and received a lot of lovely feedback from the members, but one of them hit on something that really slapped me into reality. My novel is very similar to DF. I had intended it to be alike, but different, I mean there are a lot of novels with a P.I. for a MC right? But while they loved the voice they said that the fact that he's a P.I., broke, and involved with the Fae might be too close for comfort. Then the idiocy of my Bob-like character, a ghost that speaks through a radio, really hit me as just too much. I'm not sure if I'm worried over nothing or if I should work on changing these similarities asap. The story itself is certainly different and by the end my MC isn't even a P.I. anymore, but the beginning needs to bring in the readers.