/lit/ - Literature

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Seeing a copypasta posted on 4chan a aspiring author, struggling to write something reluctantly brings himself to use the story idea. The result is good, he thinks it's better than anything he has ever written before. In fact he shows it to friends, one of these friends says that they've just met someone who works for a magazine.
A few days go by our aspiring author gets into a discussion about Jerzy Kosiński, and the accusations of plagiarism with his friend, "I dunno man, AI is pretty good now, universities have programs that can find this easily".
That same day our budding author gets a call, it's from a editor of a short story collection - they love the story, they love it so much they want to buy the publishing rights to it. Our aspiring author naturally agrees. Flash forward to him signing the contract that asserts that he and he alone is the originator of the idea.
The editor encourages him to write another story, but everything he writes is dissatisfying. He procrastinates by browsing 4chan and he sees something, it's an idea... a really good idea... he's so tempted to use it. But he starts sweating. He plays out in his mind what would happen if he was accused of plagiarism, his career dead on arrival. And then he sees a copypasta... the copypasta that inspired his story! He reads it carefully and realizes that he changed it a lot... and the original wasn't that great... he truly made it his own.