/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21612766]

>have new idea for book
>start working on it
>soon find out somebody already wrote a book or even a movie with the exact same idea

[Anonymous No.21612769]

>>21612766
do it anyway. never stopped anybody.

[Anonymous No.21612770]

Everything's been done. Originality comes from execution, not idea. This is just a slightly fancier way of saying it hasn't been done by (You) yet. You haven't put your spin on Harry Potter, or given us your version of Star Wars yet.

Execution, not idea. All the ideas have been done. "New" comes from how different storytellers execute it. I believe in you, frogfriend.

[Anonymous No.21612773]

>>21612766
opposite for me
>read some story
>think in the back of my head, "I could've done this much better."
>can't

[Anonymous No.21612774]

>>21612770
>Everything's been done
Cope

[Anonymouṡ No.21613010]

>>21612766
BOOKS ARE NOT MADE OUT OF IDEAS

[Anonymous No.21613075]

>>21612766
>prose > ideas
just get good, if your prose is boring nobody will read it anyways

[Anonymous No.21613170]

>>21612766
The execution is more important. There are many books with the same plot and thematic.
What were some of your ideas?

[Anonymous No.21613173]

>>21612773
>Read masterpiece
>"God I wish I had written this, it's fucking great"

[Anonymous No.21613180]

You can find a ton of books written about the same shit. Didn't stop others from writing it.

[Sage No.21613320]

>>21612766
So do something they didn’t do to the story? Push the genre to new heights?

[Anonymous No.21613448]

>>21612766
name the movie, OP. we need a good laugh.

[Voluntary Fool No.21614280]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM

[Anonymous No.21614284]

>>21613448
The matrix :(

[Anonymous No.21614292]

>>21612774
He’s kind of right.

[Anonymous No.21614353]

>>21614284
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA prolly thought you were the modern-day Plato also