{"id":296,"date":"2008-01-05T15:11:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T22:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=296"},"modified":"2008-01-05T15:11:34","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T22:11:34","slug":"storyspace-projects-inspiration-and-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2008\/01\/storyspace-projects-inspiration-and-plagiarism\/","title":{"rendered":"STORYSPACE PROJECTS: Inspiration and Plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"

E<\/span>veryone’s been through this I think, but you know that feeling that you might’ve lifted words from something you’ve read before?  Of course every word you write is something you’ve heard before but sometimes a particular phrase or even just the idea sort of itches your mind like something’s wrong; it didn’t come from you.  This morning I finally came right out and asked a friend if I’d stolen something from his own work.<\/p>\n

Today’s a bit of a turning point in this new project since I’ve decided to continue with the story but am approaching it in a different way so that I don’t feel lost because I’m not filling out Writing Spaces as fluidly as I did with Paths.  The greatest thing about Storyspace is that if I peter out on one path, there are many others that may be taken further if my mind is onto them.  <\/p>\n

Another thing I did for inspiration was to reread a portion of Paths (where I came across the phrase I’d mentioned above) and soon realized that I had to stop and back away.  The voice, the tone, the entire mood of reflection, regrets and fulfilled dreams were nothing that I wanted in this new piece.  While there’s no real hiding my particular writing style completely within a narrative, there are tones set by the story that need to be consistent because they affect the voice.  God knows, I don’t even want to lift anything from my own prior work because it’s too easy to feel comfortable there and bring influences picked up in reading back into the writing of a totally different tale.<\/p>\n

So if I read–and when I’m writing I don’t read quite as much–it will have to be either something relevant to what I’m writing or a diverse group of styles and shapes that can influence perhaps but not negate the form of what I’m doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

E<\/span>veryone’s been through this I think, but you know that feeling that you might’ve lifted words from something you’ve read before?  Of course every word you write is something you’ve heard before but sometimes a particular phrase or even just the idea sort of itches your mind like something’s wrong; it didn’t come from you.  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storyspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}