#12

[rant_nvr_die]

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God damnit

[anonymous]

I wrote a fic a few nights ago and haven't posted it yet. Only now I just realized that a BNF recently posted a fic that is quite similar to the one I just wrote. I didn't copy the fic but the premise is somewhat similar and in parts even the execution. This is the first time I've written in ages and now it feels like I didn't even accomplish that because it's basically the same fic as one that was posted already by someone much better than me.

Re: God damnit

[anonymous]

Oh God that really sucks. I haven't had that happen with an entire fic that I came up with unprompted, but I've written descriptions and bits of dialogue only to discover that they were similar to something a BNF wrote. And once I wrote a fill for a prompt but before I was ready to post it a very popular author posted a fill for the same prompt. It's terrible how intimidated it can make you feel, and how worried it makes you that readers will think you copied someone else's ideas. I feel for you so much, OP.