That Time of Year

[jessplayn]

So of course Nanowrimo is next month. It's hard to believe that it surprised me to find that I have the writing bug again, but then I realized that it's starting to become a habit. That makes it even more fun, but also a little weird, because I didn't use to write. I guess part of what is making it worse is that I've been spending a lot of time reading, and that always gives me more ideas. I finally got my own kindle account and have been using kindle unlimited to 'stock up' my library. Unfortunately I'm finding a lot of really cool series that only have the first book out, and I'm dying to read the next one. Which of course leads me back to my nano. The second time I did it I actually took advantage of their little 'winners' special and got the book printed. It wasn't really finished so I just left it as a part one kind of thing, and while I have been working on it some more, I haven't finalized anything else with it. And that leads me back to here and what I just posted online from it while I was actually doing Nano. I thought my idea for a boy/dragon (werewyvern) was pretty original, but I knew I probably wasn't the first person to think of something like that. I just hadn't read anything similar yet. While I still hold to that idea, I've found a couple of stories and they threw me off a little, especially since all of them have a publication date after the time that I wrote my stuff. Well last night was pretty close to the final straw. I found one that actually used the term 'weredragons'. I don't like that at all! I remember toying with what the term should be for my character. Weredragon didn't really roll off the tongue so I looked up synonyms for dragon and got wyvern. I really liked the way it sounded, so I decided to go with that. Well, now a google search pulls up stuff like I wrote, almost all dated after I wrote it. So now I'm going through a double reality check... Either I really underestimated the originality(which is almost certainly the more likely, though I still hate to admit it), or people are copying me. I really do know that it's not likely to be the second, but once it crossed my mind, well it never really finished crossing, it just kinda got stuck there. So now I'm trying to convince myself that I just didn't read enough books of that genre, and missed the volume of stuff similar to what I was writing. All the while thinking that I am never posting my writing where ideas can be poached.
I think I'm settling with the idea that I'm just giving myself WAY to much credit on the originality score....