Duplication happens more than you realize. Ideas are viral. Whatever stunningly original concept you have now – somebody else came up with it last week. Or they’re about to. Your idea is in a race to make it out into the world. You discover this after a couple of days pitching stories around Hollywood. Executives will stop you mid-pitch and tell you they’ve “heard it all before”. The novice will panic and 'know' they are being ripped off, especially when they see their story on the silver screen a couple of years later. The more jaded amongst us simply acknowledge that we’re in a story-race.
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UK novelist, screenwriter and graphic novelist Andy Briggs at http://writingteennovels.com/2013/01/14/on-story-development-by-andy-briggs
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