User blog comment:Banned In CP/I Keep Accidentally Ripping Authors Off and I'm at a Loss/@comment-34823985-20181106151548

Locked is right. So much has come before us. I wouldn't worry about it too much. You didn't rip anybody off. Maybe one day when you're selling out books, critics will notice certain similarities between your writing and other's.

Whether they do or they don't I'm sure some critics will have some not so nice things to say about one element or another in your writing. That's how it works. You aren't writing for them. You're writing for your fans and yourself. Your fans won't give a shit about a few similarities and neither should you.

Imagine a family that lives in a bright yellow house tucked in amongst a whole slew of beige and brown houses. Some people will appreciate the colorful house and applaud the family for being different. Others will say the family is trying too hard to be different and their home is an eyesore in the neighborhood. No one will be talking about how the house is a cookie cutter version of every other house in the neighborhood in shape, size, and interior layout.

The ideas in your head are yours and yours alone. Focus on your craft and keep displaying those ideas. Some people will appreciate your stories and some won't. If your story is good then no one should care if you write about a flying elephant just because Helen Aberson Mayer/Disney did it first.