I have two stories being written//edited that are a bit more macabre than my normal fare.
Ok, so on is where the hero/heroine is being stalked and the other is where they are involved with solving the crimes.
The latter one I strted writing in 2013 and is at least 6 parts. The former is something I wrote on a recent flight from Dubai to London.
Then I pick up a book called 'Deja Dead' that features Temperance "Bones" Brennan.
IT features stalking and other nasty stuff that make me so WTF? There are plots/subplots that seem mightily familiar to my stories. There is no way I got the ideas for my stories from that book but ... well ,you never know.
Now my dilemma. Do I post my work and get called out for plagurism even though I never read the 'Bones' story until most of mine were done or do I put them in the file called 'Do not publish' or do I change them so that no one could accuse me of copying another persons work.
Well what do you think?
Samantha
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Publish
Ideas cannot be copyrighted. I had a super-hero story back in the early seventies that had a scene in it that was image and word parallel to a DC published story twenty years later. Shit happens.
Swamp Thing from DC and Man-Thing from Marvel came out in almost the same month.
Doom Patrol from DC and X-Men from Marvel were almost the same time.
Sh. It happens.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Eccl 1:9
That which has been is what will be,
That which is done is what will be done,
And there is nothing new under the sun.
Obviously, Ecclesiastes was
Obviously, Ecclesiastes was neither an engineer nor in IT. (a problem solver, in other words).
Otherwise, he would have left that last line out, because I can tell you that I'm constantly surprised with the way people can break things.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Not a young Earth person
The more I study, the more it seems likely that homo sapiens has been around at least 150,000 years, though our own recorded history is less than 6,000. Archeological studies have shown ruins that were likely built by very advanced cultures in South America. Sadly, it seems likely that we have committed the same inexplicable mistakes over and over again down through the ages. I think our creator found all this quite tiresome and left our neighborhood, to start over in another Universe far far away. Homo Sapiens has not shown the promise once hoped. Perhaps when Homo Spacia comes round there will be more hope? Perhaps Garia's beings can sort this?
Go back further. Current
Go back further. Current Homo Sapiens probably coexisted with Homo Neanderthalensis for an enormously long time. The estimate right now is 400,000 years ago to 30-40,000 years ago (for H.N.).
That breaks down to somewhere on the order of 16,000 some-odd generations. (assuming 20-25 years per generation).
Homo Sapiens was probably a cousin of H.N., much like panthers and cougars, with the ability to interbreed (of course, that wasn't likely to happen often, and would fade into the genetic noise quickly).
That's what a lot of people have a hard time getting their heads around - the sheer length of time that was available for changes to happen. In that time period, MOST of it was pure hunter-gatherer. Periodically, you'd have groups that figured out how to centralise their tribes (Akkadian empire being a big one, but also Babylonians, Sumerians, etc), but for some reason, human society has been very static for a VERY long time. Building techniques got better, but change was forbidden - which led to brittle societies. (The tribes from the Russian steppes repeatedly destroyed civilizations over a long period of time. Kushans, Mongols, etc) The most classic example of a brittle society was the Inca, and a lesser extent the Maya and Aztec. The Inca were so regimented as to caste and position that when the Europeans showed up, the entire society collapsed in less than a decade. (Less than two years, if my memory serves)
Historically, the last five hundred years have been an aberration. From crop rotation (major advancement) to world wide communication systems. The 15,000 years before that took forever just to adopt the stirrup and the horse collar.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Darwin Was a Fraud
Donald J. Trump.
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Says a lot about possibly the next US President
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Well, Erasmus Darwin DID have
Well, Erasmus Darwin DID have a lot of mistaken assumptions..
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
There is a rule...
There is a rule in advertismenent business: "Have an idea? Implement it, don't wait."
I'd say post it, but with the above as a caveat.
Of course, that's easy for me to say.
Post it
I agree with this statement. Even when the plot is the same two or more authors write their own, there always will be differences and readers will prefer not the first one though the better one.
Human Nature!
If the concepts are based on "human nature"*, then they are true in a sense, and many may follow the same basic pattern, which is natural and fairly common. They will be similar in ways, and yet be their own unique stories, even though they may follow the same over all form. This similarity is what constitutes categories and subcategories in fiction. It is also what makes a story ring true for the reader, which is one of the main things connects the reader to the story.
Similar to other stories based on the same basic premise? Of course it is! And I for one am glad there is more then one story available for each basic premise, otherwise I would not have anything to read anymore.
~Hypatia >i< ..:::
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*(no matter how far fetched the setting)
Any chance you have seen any
Any chance you have seen any episodes of the TV series Bones?
Same character.
Started in 2005 and has been on for 11 seasons, with a 12th to start soon.