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01-06-2007, 04:20 PM
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Profound Writer
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Can You Believe This?
I know this sort of thing happens all the time, but this is the first time it has happened to me.
I had an idea for a book of writing prompts a couple of months ago. I was going to call it something like "A picture is worth...". I began taking my digital camera wherever I went and have been taking inspiring pictures that could be used as visual prompts. I was going to compile them into a book.
Well.... I got an email yesterday that I subscribe to, and it showed a book called... you guessed it "A picture is worth 1000 words." It is being released early this year.
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01-06-2007, 04:46 PM
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Is it full of writing prompts? I had this happen to me once with CD players in jumpers.
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01-06-2007, 04:54 PM
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Well I had an idea for a novel and the Da Vinci Codes used most of them up, so my publishing it would sem like a total copy of it.
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01-06-2007, 05:21 PM
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Damn. Originality is so hard!
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01-06-2007, 05:30 PM
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a good idea is very hard to come by. sometimes I get an idea and I think it is so great. then later I find out that its just something I remembered out of a book I read lol. So, I need to keep track of these ideas and check the books I'm reading to make sure I didn't already read about it. Kind of confusing lol.
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01-06-2007, 07:05 PM
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Really, clichees are unavoidable, aren't they? I mean, ideas are constantly recycled. The difficult part is just not crossing the line into the no man's land that is plagarism.
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01-06-2007, 09:00 PM
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For prompts, try finding a copy of The Writer's Block, by Jason Rekulak. Has 786 words, ideas, photographs and questions for prompts for stories.
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01-06-2007, 09:10 PM
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Prolific Writer
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Originally Posted by KarmaVictim
Really, clichees are unavoidable, aren't they? I mean, ideas are constantly recycled. The difficult part is just not crossing the line into the no man's land that is plagarism.
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Yeah most "new" ideas now are just twists on old ones. If you really want something original (atleast to some extent) just think of a twist to change everything or a part of something or look at something in a different way. Aleast it works for me, I think... 
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