Aprehentions, Lamentations.

[vsmallgoddess]

After seeing the film X3 last night, I am filled with confusion and mixed feelings (as if I didn't have enough of those allready). On the one hand, I had allready decided that it was time for me to return to the often less-than world of adult reality and focus on my writing as more of a full time hobby with a direction in publication, not in a

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[bookshelf_elf]

You know, I feel the same way about the YA market. They're coming out with all of these neat teen novels based around fairies and magic and other worlds, and it's like all of my ideas have been produced by other people already. It's very disheartening, but you have to try not to give in, because there's always a way to make things different.

Just look at sitcoms if you need an example. Or summer blockbusters...

[qos]

Does it help to think about the fact that it's not always the storyline that is new, but the sensibility that the writer brings to it?

I don't know how much, if at all, Blooded is connected to the fiction you posted, here, but that was certainly original.

At the same time, I know what it feels like to read or see something and feel struck to the heart because someone else has written my story.

And remember that you will keep growing and coming up with new ideas. You have not yet told all the stories that are within you. It may take you a while to discover all of them.