: Re: Would it be plagiarism if you use a changed scene? If I read someone else's scene that describes a situation in my own work if adapted to fit my characters and plot, would it constitute plagiarism

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Plagiarism: The act of
plagiarizing: the copying of another
person's ideas, text or other creative
work, and presenting it as one's own,
especially without permission.

Technically, stealing an idea is plagiarism just as much as stealing their words. However, as another old adage goes, "There's nothing new under the sun." Everything you ever write is going to be influenced by other things you've read in the past.

Just make sure that the story you're telling is your own, and not somebody else's. Let yourself be inspired by other writers and what they do, but don't go stealing their work wholesale and trying to claim that it's yours.

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