A question for Erin and the Closeteers.

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I have a question.

I want to write some stories for halloween that won't fit in the contest. My dilemma is, all of these stories (about 4 of them) are ones that were previously published as old comic book stories (a few from The House of Mystery, one from Plop!, another from a Robert E. Howard short story). I want to re-write them with a TG twist. How do I do this without plagiarizing, or at least avoiding the appearance of plagiarizing? I don't have these comic stories in book form; they exist mainly in my memory. So I don't have writer credits for them, except the Robt. Howard one. How do I do this the right way - do i post a disclaimer, and if so, what should it say??

Help!

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Make a notation at the beginning

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Frank's picture

This story was inspired by "..." It would be similar to FanFiction.

You won't be plagiarizing unless you take whole parts of the story verbatim and stick them into your work.

{{Hugs}}

Hugs

Frank

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Erin and the Closeteers

It's Morphin Time!!!!

Now where did I park that Zord?

I was thinking "Captain Planet", myself...

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"We're the Closeteers! You can be one, too! 'Cuz changing your gender is the thing to do!"

(Aaaaaaaaand that's going to be stuck in my head the rest of the night...)

Not much different

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Sounds a lot like fan fiction to me, or even less objectionable. You can say where the inspiration came from but that is not really plagiarism unless you quote extensive parts of the dialog. It probably comes under the same sort of fair use exemption that Mad magazine used.

Hugs,
Erin

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