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Do you fear being influenced?
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Sameth on August 25, 2007, 07:59:51 PM ---I'm pretty sure The Dark Tower series was influenced by T.S. Elliot's "The Wasteland," but I mean, the Fisher king stuff and the Dark Tower and all that come way before T.S. Elliot.
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Yes, but there's a difference between influenced by and deliberate homage and reference to, and King probably would not have used epigraphs and titles and things from "The Waste Land" if it wasn't deliberate.
eviladam:
I just want to make sure it's as original as possible, and not just pieced together from other great sci fi. My big fear is that I'll think it's original and some one will read it and say replace willaim shatner with the guy from seven days and that's your novel. Not that my novel is any thing like either of those shows, just saying.
Uilos:
--- Quote from: eviladam on August 26, 2007, 08:57:31 AM ---I just want to make sure it's as original as possible, and not just pieced together from other great sci fi.
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Ah, Eragon...
meg_evonne:
An interesting quote this morning on PBS. "Creativity does not evolve from nothingness." Creativity evolves from our backgrounds, our morals/ethics, what we have read or seen or felt around us, which transfers to our soul. It is a jumble of mediums and thoughts.
Creativity is not the repetition of another's work.
Yeah, that gray, but you recognize creativity that is unique and that which is copied. The first soars and the second crashes....
Kristine:
If you want to check on names or specifics if things ring too familiar try googling the name. Usually there is a fan our there somewhere who has it in a web site or, god forbid, it is an actual person of note that might take offence.
Influence isn't bad if you can make it last for the entirety of the story your writing but it doesn't work if every chapter your influenced by a different book. Don't be afraid to read your work out loud as well. I find that this is one way to catch when you have been thinking faster than you were writing.
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