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[lindseymarkel]

so i've been working on this short story for something like a month and i just realized that in it i have DIRECTLY AND BLATANTLY ripped off faulkner

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[curieuse]

Barn Arson?
A Carnation for Emily?

[lindseymarkel]

as i lay dying... it's a short story told from different perspectives and the basic conflict is that someone has died and vultures are stalking the house - it's all very gritty and southern and i've sort of replicated vardaman, in a way, too. haha. but in all honesty i'm not freaking out about it. i can switch a lot of things up and fix it, make it more my story.

[goodbyesterday]

Mark Willhardt says, "Faulkner is a greater genious than you will ever be. You should just give up writing now."

I say... what did you rip off?

[goodbyesterday]

oh. i see. okay.

[lindseymarkel]

tell mark that because he said that i'm going to give up on junior college/life/(as if i already haven't) and am instead going to live a sad, fat life involving lots of maury povich and microwaveable burritos.

ACTUALLY YOU SHOULD TELL HIM THAT JUST B/C HE QUIT WRITING AFTER REALIZING HE COULDN'T BE THE BEST DOESN'T MEAN THAT I WILL TOO B/C I GOT GUTS, YA SEE, I GOTS GUTS!!

[goodbyesterday]

"She can't quite community college because her mother emailed me last night to tell me how excited the whole family is to come to graduation."

FUCKING GRADUATE LINDSEY. (Mark)

[tink]

My sister wrote a poem not too long ago that she recently realized directly and blatantly ripped off Plath.

We thought it was hysterical.

[tweetrb]

lindsey this has nothing to do with your writing or what this post is about howeve it was fun to read all the comments. so i started this new job at kohls and part of it is i have to fold close and half of them make me think of you! so i thought id say hello:)

[lindseymarkel]

lisa, that makes me smile.
i hope you're having fun!!

[lindseymarkel]

plath, of all people!

(FAULKNER, of all people!)

oh well, at least we're ripping off some greats. better plath and faulkner than nora roberts.

[carrle_zimos]

Fuck Faulkner. Nobody likes him anyway. If anybody asks you about it just say, "motherfucker stole from me, bitch!"

I once accidentally stole the name for the protagonist in a short story I wrote not from a published author, but from someone else's story in the same class. Luckily I caught that one before I handed the story in.

Also, once Brian wrote Spank Thru by Nirvana.

[grandma_milliez]

I hope you looked at a picture of Faulkner and shrugged and said "bygones?" Because that's what I would have done.

*HUGS*