Everywhere I look people are talking about how a good book is something new, something creative, something that reader's haven't seen before and may never see again. Is that really true? And if it is, is that all that goes into making a book good?
Earlier today I was reading a post on Writer Unboxed (here about that. What I took away from it (which isn't exactly what it said) is that anything you write will draw elements from your experiences, and since any good writer reads at some point or another it will draw from something you've read. Because of that I've started to wonder if maybe it's not that the idea is new, but the way the idea is presented feels new.
What do you think?
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