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I've got an idea for a fic, and lots of it is written, but it's disorganized and going to be long, so I'm nowhere near posting it anywhere. And I keep seeing stuff that I'm planning to write about, or have written about, all over the damn place. Mostly on ff.n ::shudder:: And I can't decide whether I prefer to read it done badly, or done well.
When it's done badly, I'm torn between "Augh, nobody could possibly think I would have copied from this author, and wow am I ever going to do a better job than they did!" versus "OHMYGOD I no longer want to write about that!! I am SCARRED!! And OHMYGOD what if people think I stole from this?!!!"
When it's done well, I'm torn between "Oooh, that's just what I wanted to write about - and there it is, and ooh, what a great job this author did!" ::happy sigh:: versus "Crap, maybe I shouldn't bother trying, it's already been done far better than I could ever write it - and besides, what if people think I plagiarized from here?"
The one thing I was comforting myself with was that at least the big plot thing I wanted to write hadn't been done yet. The details and subplots, sure, but whatever. At least the Point of the Story hadn't been done yet.
And now, as of this afternoon, it has. Not totally; the story is only at the Prologue stage. But it looks like the author will be taking things exactly in the direction I wanted to take them, and that she's going to do it... adequately. Not terrible, not terrific, but somewhere in between.
::sigh::
ETA: Yes, I know I'm being annoyingly vague on the details. Sorry :(
When it's done badly, I'm torn between "Augh, nobody could possibly think I would have copied from this author, and wow am I ever going to do a better job than they did!" versus "OHMYGOD I no longer want to write about that!! I am SCARRED!! And OHMYGOD what if people think I stole from this?!!!"
When it's done well, I'm torn between "Oooh, that's just what I wanted to write about - and there it is, and ooh, what a great job this author did!" ::happy sigh:: versus "Crap, maybe I shouldn't bother trying, it's already been done far better than I could ever write it - and besides, what if people think I plagiarized from here?"
The one thing I was comforting myself with was that at least the big plot thing I wanted to write hadn't been done yet. The details and subplots, sure, but whatever. At least the Point of the Story hadn't been done yet.
And now, as of this afternoon, it has. Not totally; the story is only at the Prologue stage. But it looks like the author will be taking things exactly in the direction I wanted to take them, and that she's going to do it... adequately. Not terrible, not terrific, but somewhere in between.
::sigh::
ETA: Yes, I know I'm being annoyingly vague on the details. Sorry :(
