: Re: Am I copying an idea too closely? I guess this is a question about inspiration versus copying. I recently came across a story that really gripped me both with the inspiration for an idea and

Normal creative process would be coming up with an idea or twist based on your ways. There is no big harm reading alternative ideas, or getting caught by a specific one. If that matches so well to your own ways of thinking, story, writing, you may adapt it, and work on to fit well in your story.

Depending on your style you may want to keep this idea from instant processing. Keep it around for a few days, let the thrill chill down, and look for it some time later. If at that time it seems very out of league, and you can't modify it enough to blend in well, you better consider to leave the idea, because then it will become pure copying without necessary creativity.

Update: Involving Lew's answer, it is OK to be inspired by a story, and your setting is far enough from the source, however if you copy the mechanisms, occourance of events, the wave of thrill, etc., so if it gets same characteristics, pattern, it would still qualify as a copy. This is where I meant to rework them for your story, blend them in, make it fitting in there without being the same.

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