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Shylass
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When I was writing my dissertations at uni, I kept coming up with what I thought were some pretty smart ideas.

However, after looking for references to back it up or argue with my theories, I invariably found that somebody else had that same theory before me, and so I'd have to re-write my papers using the ideas as somebody else's quotes, so I wouldn't be accused of plagiarism.

Also, I've had ideas for a story here, started working on it, and then seen pretty much the same story line posted on Lush within hours of me starting it. So obviously, I have to scrap it.

And now, I've written a story about a sausage slut with a banger up her bum, and it turns out, a bigoted media whore in the UK recently said she'd run along a street naked with a sausage up her bum if Sadiq Khan became the Mayor of London. So now it looks like I got the idea from her!



Have any of you had what you thought was an original idea, only to find that it's been done before, or that somebody pipped you to the post?
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"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 1:9). Two thousand + year old words that still hold true.*

In a field like erotic fiction, the best you can hope for is to spin a story a new way. Total originality is likely impossible. I have never aimed for total originality, only to write a good story in my own voice. Hopefully, in doing so, that story will be original enough to be distinguishable from other variations on the theme.

* though I doubt the idea expressed is original to Ecclesiastes, that's just the oldest statement of the principle I personally know of.
Burquette
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Have any of you had what you thought was an original idea, only to find that it's been done before, or that somebody pipped you to the post?


Yes, absolutely. In science, it was "being scooped" and it was so infuriating after months, if not years, of research.

When I think about my writing, some of the premises are tired. A rich, powerful guy offers a less wealthy, less powerful woman favors for sex. A girl goes to a genie for a wish. Where, oh where, have I ever seen that before?

So, I try to make it unique by filling out the characters in a meaningful way and making their situations unique.

I think you should run with the sausage-up-the-ass idea. I mean, really. It's such a great visual and I'll bet that was an empty threat from the bigoted media whore. ;)
sprite
Her Royal Spriteness
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Yes, absolutely. In science, it was "being scooped" and it was so infuriating after months, if not years, of research.

When I think about my writing, some of the premises are tired. A rich, powerful guy offers a less wealthy, less powerful woman favors for sex. A girl goes to a genie for a wish. Where, oh where, have I ever seen that before?

So, I try to make it unique by filling out the characters in a meaningful way and making their situations unique.

I think you should run with the sausage-up-the-ass idea. I mean, really. It's such a great visual and I'll bet that was an empty threat from the bigoted media whore. ;)


may i suggest going with tentacle stories? i'd suggest dino-porn, but it's already been done to death.

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Burquette
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may i suggest going with tentacle stories? i'd suggest dino-porn, but it's already been done to death.


I have a tentacle story but I thought it would violate Lush's all human policy. ;)
sprite
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I have a tentacle story but I thought it would violate Lush's all human policy. ;)


depends on how you do it. if you're serious, and need advice, talk to me. we need more T-Porn!

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Burquette
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depends on how you do it. if you're serious, and need advice, talk to me. we need more T-Porn!


I promise I will. First psychotic stalkers. Then, maybe a shot at Gothic erotica. Then, tentacle sex, run by you first.
Shylass
Gingerbread Lover
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I think you should run with the sausage-up-the-ass idea. I mean, really. It's such a great visual and I'll bet that was an empty threat from the bigoted media whore. ;)


It's somebody else who wanted to run with bum sausage! I'd already submitted my story a couple of days ago. I found out about the media incident this morning. Now I'm seeing headlines of whether or not she'll get arrested if she does it.





EDIT: I don't trust anything the media tell us, but still... http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kate-hopkins-sausage-stunt_uk_572f3538e4b0ade291a20108

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NymphWriter
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Have any of you had what you thought was an original idea, only to find that it's been done before, or that somebody pipped you to the post?


As I always tell my students... Great minds think alike.
Shylass
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As I always tell my students... Great minds think alike.


So do rubbish ones! I just can't abide the thought of wasting a sausage up the bum! I mean, I like brown sauce, but really, I'm not eating it after that!
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Some of my non-erotica fans often ask what kind of stuff I write here... (Obviously I can't show them EVERYTHING, but, with the surprisingly-well received 'Black And Tan' I thought it had merit as a PIECE despite rather than because of its erotic content...)

So, I printed out a copy of it and gave it to my friend Dex to read...

He read it. He liked it. And then he said, "Did you get the idea for a shell-shocked soldier from the movie 'Ryan's Daughter'?"

Shit.

Because I really didn't!!! (But I'm not sure he believed me and now I'm not sure I believe it myself!!!)

Now, I KNOW I'm taking a bit of a risk telling you all that, (watch, they'll take away my EP now...) but the thing is I really didn't CONSCIOUSLY plagiarize 'Ryan's Bloody Daughter'!!! (Although I have seen that movie numerous times and indeed, as a younger man, fell quite MADLY in love with Sarah Miles because of it...)

In ALL the 'How To Write' books they say there are only about FIVE stories and everything ever written is just a variation on those simple themes... (Not sure where sticking a banger up yer whootsie fits in there but I guess it does!!!)

xx SF
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So do rubbish ones! I just can't abide the thought of wasting a sausage up the bum! I mean, I like brown sauce, but really, I'm not eating it after that!


Put it on e-bay...

xx SF

(SORRY!!!) *giggles!*
Shylass
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Put it on e-bay...

xx SF

(SORRY!!!) *giggles!*


I'll wrap it in some knickers and send it to you.
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I'll wrap it in some knickers and send it to you.


Hold the banger, send the pants... (You know what I like...) If they are clean ones I'll send them back...

(Love you, BTW and GOOD to see you writing again!!!)

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX SF

Everyone: "Why does DAISY get more SF 'X's' than anyone else?"

Me: "We go back..."

Shylass: "We don't go back THAT WAY, Steffie!"

Me: "We could have..."

Shylass: "No, we could absolutely not have..."

Me: "WE COULD HAVE!!! Watch..."


"Daisy Shylass and Stephanie Flashman were hot-shot, young-gun writers at Lush Stories Inc. Occasionally, when they'd travel to Lush Towers to collect their cheques from Lush due to the VAST AMMOUNTS of revenue their writing generated they would meet in the elevator. Each would avoid the other's eye. Both knew they were in the presence of supreme greatness. Neither acknowledged the smouldering passion that would have been apparent to anyone else. In those moments, the three minutes it took to travel with her to the 6667th floor that housed the Lush Stories suite of offices and Nicola's penthouse, he would become hard as a concentration camp guard. For her part, her kninnies would invariably tsunami in the presence of the troubled, glowering, haunted but almost unbelieveably sexy and oddly attractive, beautiful, gifted, talented, dangerously sexy, handsome, sexy Irishman. But nothing was ever said. Until the day the elevator faulted and failed. And there they were. Together at last. Trapped.... In a lift."

Shylass: "I collect my cheques from Nicola's manor in Shropshire. I usually stay the weekend. She has shooting parties. It's cool. Coldplay were there in March. I never go to the office building."

Me: "NICOLA HAS A MANOR HOUSE IN FUCKING SHROPSHIRE?"

Shylass: "Yes. Although personally I prefer her castle in Ireland but she only summers and Christmasses there... I've been there four times. She sneaks in and leaves you filled stockings after you go to bed! She's lovely..."

Me: "NICOLA HAS A CASTLE IN FUCKING IRELAND????"

Shylass: "Yes. Though I always love the planning weeks we have at the start of the year at her Chateau in Toulon. Lovely gardens. Business and pleasure!"

Me:"Are you SERIOUSLY fucking seriously serious?"

Shylass: "When Beasley and I went to Tokyo last August she insisted we stay in her apartment there. Her staff are lovely! Hideo is such a good butler and Yoshimi is the sweetest maid."

Me: "FUCK OFF! AND WHO THE FUCK IS FUCKING BEASLEY?"
NymphWriter
Unicorn Wrangler
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So do rubbish ones! I just can't abide the thought of wasting a sausage up the bum! I mean, I like brown sauce, but really, I'm not eating it after that!


I was trying to be nice... though you do make a valid point as well. And why any woman would want to ruin food like that is beyond me.
ChuckEPoo
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I totally had the whole Hairy Potter thing worked out decades ago, then the first movie showed. And I was like WTF.
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I totally had the whole Hairy Potter thing worked out decades ago, then the first movie showed. And I was like WTF.


'JAWS' was my idea...

(Although my premise was a psychopathic goldfish...)

Fuck You, PETER BENCHLEY.

xx SF
Just_A_Guy_You_Know
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When I was writing my dissertations at uni, I kept coming up with what I thought were some pretty smart ideas.

However, after looking for references to back it up or argue with my theories, I invariably found that somebody else had that same theory before me, and so I'd have to re-write my papers using the ideas as somebody else's quotes, so I wouldn't be accused of plagiarism.

Also, I've had ideas for a story here, started working on it, and then seen pretty much the same story line posted on Lush within hours of me starting it. So obviously, I have to scrap it.

And now, I've written a story about a sausage slut with a banger up her bum, and it turns out, a bigoted media whore in the UK recently said she'd run along a street naked with a sausage up her bum if Sadiq Khan became the Mayor of London. So now it looks like I got the idea from her!



Have any of you had what you thought was an original idea, only to find that it's been done before, or that somebody pipped you to the post?


This whole thread was my idea first.

Post-avant-retro-demelodicized-electro-yodel-core is my jam.

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I once did a paper on M&A's and I had my heart set on Cadbury/Kraft but then read a similar one online and felt like I just had to pick someone else. But for stories, it's never happened.
MadMartigan
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The shit I write is entirely too fucked up to be stolen by another. My mind is way too twisted to come up with the things I bloviate out onto page.
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The shit I write is entirely too fucked up to be stolen by another. My mind is way too twisted to come up with the things I bloviate out onto page.


I had to look up "bloviate". It is not often that I learn a new word and I really like this one. Thanks.
Shylass
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Hold the banger, send the pants... (You know what I like...) If they are clean ones I'll send them back...

(Love you, BTW and GOOD to see you writing again!!!)

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX SF

Everyone: "Why does DAISY get more SF 'X's' than anyone else?"

Me: "We go back..."

Shylass: "We don't go back THAT WAY, Steffie!"

Me: "We could have..."

Shylass: "No, we could absolutely not have..."

Me: "WE COULD HAVE!!! Watch..."


"Daisy Shylass and Stephanie Flashman were hot-shot, young-gun writers at Lush Stories Inc. Occasionally, when they'd travel to Lush Towers to collect their cheques from Lush due to the VAST AMMOUNTS of revenue their writing generated they would meet in the elevator. Each would avoid the other's eye. Both knew they were in the presence of supreme greatness. Neither acknowledged the smouldering passion that would have been apparent to anyone else. In those moments, the three minutes it took to travel with her to the 6667th floor that housed the Lush Stories suite of offices and Nicola's penthouse, he would become hard as a concentration camp guard. For her part, her kninnies would invariably tsunami in the presence of the troubled, glowering, haunted but almost unbelieveably sexy and oddly attractive, beautiful, gifted, talented, dangerously sexy, handsome, sexy Irishman. But nothing was ever said. Until the day the elevator faulted and failed. And there they were. Together at last. Trapped.... In a lift."

Shylass: "I collect my cheques from Nicola's manor in Shropshire. I usually stay the weekend. She has shooting parties. It's cool. Coldplay were there in March. I never go to the office building."

Me: "NICOLA HAS A MANOR HOUSE IN FUCKING SHROPSHIRE?"

Shylass: "Yes. Although personally I prefer her castle in Ireland but she only summers and Christmasses there... I've been there four times. She sneaks in and leaves you filled stockings after you go to bed! She's lovely..."

Me: "NICOLA HAS A CASTLE IN FUCKING IRELAND????"

Shylass: "Yes. Though I always love the planning weeks we have at the start of the year at her Chateau in Toulon. Lovely gardens. Business and pleasure!"

Me:"Are you SERIOUSLY fucking seriously serious?"

Shylass: "When Beasley and I went to Tokyo last August she insisted we stay in her apartment there. Her staff are lovely! Hideo is such a good butler and Yoshimi is the sweetest maid."

Me: "FUCK OFF! AND WHO THE FUCK IS FUCKING BEASLEY?"





Me: What the feck are you on about?

SF: I have no idea...

Me: That's why we're friends.







Thank you for the replies, all you lovely people. I'm glad it's not just me.
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naughtyannie
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I know this is WAY off topic, but has Stephanie suddenly left Lush? Only his posts have become Guests?

I do hope not - he always made me giggle.

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I know this is WAY off topic, but has Stephanie suddenly left Lush? Only his posts have become Guests?

I do hope not - he always made me giggle.


It appears so, I'm afraid. Though he has deactivated before and then come back after he cools down so who knows?