I love to write. Seriously. It just seems that whenever I get something good, it seems to be from a seed of an idea that came up while I was reading something else. I sit down to write it out and I say to myself, No, don't worry about it, the fundamental idea is similar, but you don't have the same characters or even the same plot line. It'll be completely different.
This never works. The further I get, the more obvious these similarities seem, until they're so glaring that I just have to assume that every one in the world is going to look at it and go, "Oh, did you just read --- ?" In retrospect, it really wouldn't be obvious at all to other readers but it makes me feel like such a fraud.
I hate this feeling. It's a terrible, crummy, guilty feeling and I guess all I'm asking is if it really is a crime to take other people's ideas and change them and mess with them and cut parts out and add parts in so that they become yours? They say that writers are readers moved to emulation, but I'm not so sure. _/) Any opinions?
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