: Re: How similar can something be before an idea is stolen? I'm looking to write a Metamorphosis style short story where the reader wakes up as an animal for no apparent reason, and everything

If you have similar characters, scenes and plot line, you are too close to the source material. Having a similar plot, idea or device is fine, but you have to find a way to make it yours.

If simply being similar to an idea or plot was forbidden, no one would be able to write a story as pretty much every possible plot has been used somewhere.

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