Cooper. Is. Very. Amused.

[harleycooper]

Fascinating. When this story was called to my attention due to the fact that one of my readers stated that it has some similarities to my story "Appetite for Enigma," I was only too eager to track this down. I am, by far, and currently (without any other emotion to express)..."fascinated."

Is this flattery directed at me or am I being self-centered

Comments

[soul_of_raziel]

Wow, the sheer audacity that someone would directly lift precious quotes from your fantastic original story! I've decided to take a look myself, and I'm just...appalled. It's even worse that this person has your story on their favorites. Really now, plagiarism is just the worst. Now, I would understand if she was inspired by some of the concepts, like 'mental orgasm' and uniquely employed that term in her own stories in her own words (I'm quite partial to the concept of 'mental orgasm' myself), but simply copying and pasting whole text from your story is just a no-no.

Sorry to hear you're going through such trouble =/

[harleycooper]

To be honest, when it was called to my attention by this reader who also read that story and reviewed it, she claimed to have recognized many similiarities. So I easily tracked it down due to FFNet's reliable search engine and my discomfort I skimmed because I don't want to feel like I'm making a big deal out of this and accuse someone. But since you've read it, do you think she has intentionally ripped me off or something?

This fraughts me. But this is my response to her when she replied to my review (I posted her side on my comment to Nana-san below):

I take much appreciation for the respect and honesty, dearest. It is only one

[soul_of_raziel]

Hm...well, it seemed like the most they did was copy and paste whole dialogue from your scenes (including the card game scenario) and probably revised it a bit to make it better fit into their own story, but otherwise, most of your original work was pretty much intact. At least she was honest, I suppose - though hopefully when she re-writes this story, she will actually use her own creativity rather than taking someone's ideas whole-cloth. However, I have to give her credit for attempting to re-write the thing; yet I still say you keep tabs on the story, just to make sure.

[harleycooper]

I guess that's fairly reasonable. I don't want this to distract me from the fact that I'm struggling to write some coherenct material right now in FFNet since my DN obsession seems to be calmer these days so inspiration hardly comes. But I will be finishing the next chapter for AFE within two weeks from now (I have exams this coming week.) Besides, I think she was inspired with my work and that says enough for me. I appreciate the flattery. I just don't like to get vindictive but yeah, I'll keep looking out for this story, see if she's keeping her word.

[soul_of_raziel]

Yeah, that's the best that you can do - and the fact that you handled the matter maturely and calmly really speaks volumes about you :3 I'm sure that the situation will clear itself up somehow - however, if she continues, um...taking your ideas (perhaps it would be a reasonable compromise if she gives credit to you?) then I believe you could alway report her to the community stop_plagiarism. Hopefully, though, it won't have to come down to that - we'll just have to wait and see.

[harleycooper]

I usually am more intolerant with hatemails...I really take pleasure making them explode back to the sender's face...but this one is a lot different. This writer seems like she wants to really share a story...only that it seemed to have come from my own story...but we never really now...but since you read it and you claimed that she did copy it...hmmm...I don't want to give my opinion on the matter since I might be biased.

Yeah, let's wait and see...I'm gonna read her chapter one now and really read it. Other than that, all I could do is just sit back and watch what happens...

...and update AFE.