Another One Bites the Dust
I've been struggling with my band story, working title Prufrock, for a while now. So I decided to put it on the back burner. Cue a more famous writer having already written a really similar story, yet again (like when I found out Mercedes Lackey's Fairy Godmother sounded like my Confessions of a Fairy Godmother). As it turns out, Sarah Dessen's This Lullaby reminds me a lot of Prufrock, so I've decided to put it immediately at the front of my reading queue. I'm hoping that it turns out the way it did before, same skeleton different person. I hate it when this happens! But then it's all par for the course when writing a cliche...
Ugh, okay, I've only just started and we have the girl as snarky and disenchanted by love, the boy as an obnoxious guy in a band that she runs into at an every day place. Now the Skittles and beer. *head desk* Maybe I should be grateful that I didn't get very far now? Because Sarah Dessen is an awesome writer and I pale in comparison. And after more reading, the lead male, Dexter, isn't like Flynn. Remy and Ainsley while similar aren't the same either, at least to me. They're at different points in their lives and got there because of different circumstances... Different plots overall. But still there are a few very glaring similarities that now that I'm aware of, I can mitigate.
P.S. Anyone still reading my fanfic, it's still WiP. I haven't given up on them yet!
Ugh, okay, I've only just started and we have the girl as snarky and disenchanted by love, the boy as an obnoxious guy in a band that she runs into at an every day place. Now the Skittles and beer. *head desk* Maybe I should be grateful that I didn't get very far now? Because Sarah Dessen is an awesome writer and I pale in comparison. And after more reading, the lead male, Dexter, isn't like Flynn. Remy and Ainsley while similar aren't the same either, at least to me. They're at different points in their lives and got there because of different circumstances... Different plots overall. But still there are a few very glaring similarities that now that I'm aware of, I can mitigate.
P.S. Anyone still reading my fanfic, it's still WiP. I haven't given up on them yet!