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McAnally's (The Community Pub) => Author Craft => Topic started by: LizW65 on September 10, 2013, 04:32:52 PM

Title: So I think I may have plagarised Terry Pratchett...
Post by: LizW65 on September 10, 2013, 04:32:52 PM

A few days ago I wrote the following in my work in progress:
[suspicious]"He has his finger on the pulse of the city, even if he's only waiting for it to expire so he can steal its watch"[/suspicious]
...and can't help thinking this sounds familiar (and too funny) to be an original thought. Anyone recognize this phrase or something very like it from an existing work? I ran it through one of those plagiarism checker tools and it came up OK, but the tool in question appears to be for non-fiction works such as school assignments and may not have fiction in its database. Can anyone help?

Title: Re: So I think I may have plagarised Terry Pratchett...
Post by: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on September 10, 2013, 04:51:56 PM

It has a Pratchett feel to it, but I don't recall it being a Pratchett line specifically.

Title: Re: So I think I may have plagarised Terry Pratchett...
Post by: LizW65 on September 12, 2013, 06:23:48 PM

Thanks; I've come across a couple of similarly themed lines in Snuff, but nothing too close yet. Fingers crossed that it's original.