: Re: I'm scared that my story is plagiarizing another story I am working on my debut story. In my freetime, I write another story that will be the start of a series. The series consists of Steampunk

"Ideas" can't be copyrighted. Only expressions of ideas.

That means that when "West Side Story" substituted warring gangs for warring families in a teen-aged love tragedy, that was not "copying." Nor would a story about two lovers, one of whom was Union and the other Confederate in the American Civil War.

What could get you into trouble is copying e.g. Shakespeare's style and expression. For instance, if you used something like "Roberto, why are you Roberto?" in place of "Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" that would be copying. And this would be true even if you changed the context from a "dating" to say, a professional situation.

The most important thing to do in your story is to change the names of characters and descriptions, and make sure they don't say the same things as the characters from the original. They can even mean the same things, but that's a different story.

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