Are you stuck? Get a similar story to yours that you really liked and rip the living hell out of it. Replace names and locations, use synonyms for adverbs, shuffle the events.
"Rip the living hell out of it?" Seems to me that you're promoting plagiarism, which is the worst possible "advice" you could offer.
I agree. This is terrifying advice. You can read others to try to learn genre tricks, such as pacing, but never base your writing on someone else's. I'm strongly opposed to fanfiction also. Just another fancy word for ripping off someone else's work.
Exactly. There's a reason why fanfiction is verboten in professional writing circles.
One a good writer steals a bad one copies and nothing is original. Also you're forgetting
5.Editing
"Of course nobody should settle for imitations or badly stitched together stories. Many times it’s the editing that does the trick" or this "Change anything that feels off."
That does not "undo" the encouraged acts of plagiarism. Editing doesn't "fix" setting out to copy someone. And yes, things can be original.
Also you are mistaking your for you're.
Then star wars was made by a plagiarism as it steals from everything and name something that has never taken something from something else. Also editing is fixing something by its very definition you moron.
We are trying to help you, “you moron.” (Insult borrowed from your own hidden comment.) Endorsement of plagiarism in any form will get your fanny smacked in the real world as well as on this platform. Please consider your words carefully before you encourage people to do things that are not only illegal, but immoral and ethically unconscionable. No amount of editing in the world can erase the fact that you blatantly advised writers to “rip” the work of others. If I were you, I would simply take my lumps at this point and learn from the experience.
you really do sound like a bully
Hey, if somebody doesn't stand up for what's right, then everything starts going wrong.
And seriously...how many alt accounts do you have? That's starting to look suspicious to me all by itself. More and more like a chronic scammer who's just looking to get over on as many folks as he can. There are teams in this community who monitor such activity, by the way. In case you didn't know.
Pardon the intrusion, but I think that is not what he meant when he offered the said advice. This is not the "rip off a story then present it as yours" kind but rather "rip off a story as a jumpstart to writing." Besides, this is just "step four", not the final step. There's still step five: Editing. He even mentioned that "nobody should settle for imitations or badly stitched together stories... Once you are stuck or over with paying tribute to another story, go back to the beginning and read the whole thing. Change anything that feels off."
One a good writer steals a bad one copies and nothing is original. Also you're forgetting
5.Editing
"Of course nobody should settle for imitations or badly stitched together stories. Many times it’s the editing that does the trick" or this "Change anything that feels off."
How many alts do you actually have? And why?
They're Quotation marks as those are quotes from 5. editing.
No. I mean alt accounts.
you are retarded
plagiarism makes you money
Nope.
Yes. Just read any YA novel.
A good writer steals. But stealing like that is not done by taking a story and altering it until it looks different enough.
That's called plagiarism. Stealing is done when you see a concept out construction that you adapt and work into your OWN story. That you wrote yourself.
plagiarism = the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
synonyms: copying · infringement of copyright · piracy · theft · stealing · cribbing