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This is a way of making myself write something coherent and grammatically correct almost every day. I'm opinionated and need an outlet. I'm also prone to flights of fancy. Thanks for stopping by. |
| You know you had a good source of inspiration when the same story that compelled you to write a story built on that one when someone else does the same thing! I could spit nails! I've been working on an idea for months, developing characters, setting, scenarios, and trying to be practical. I want my story to be believable to those who know the original, and historically accurate for the nonfiction parts. And somebody else has created a version of it in modern times, four generations up! Mind you, I'm not mad at them. They're lovely people with good intentions. They have no idea other people are cooking up things. The other work is not a book, but a TV series for children. But it uses the same characters as ancestors. I have given those people descendants but only 2 generations up, and there is no way they'll match in names or circumstances, maybe not gender. of course, my story is aimed at adults, but it's clean enough.The same core audience that liked the original will be the audience for both the current works, except for the kids. Theirs has become a large group project and will be on TV by the end of the year. That core audience will be well acquainted with it before I can get my solitary work done. Theirs is a sure thing. Mine might never see the light of day. Should I keep going? Should I change all the names and make them similar but not direct? If I did get published, would that be overkill on the subject line? Too much of a good thing. TV always gets more press. Sequels have been written to other works after the author's death, and nobody competed. So should I proceed, knowing it might never come to anything? Or just drop it? |
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