: Re: Any Technique to See if Your Idea is Original? I usually get quite a lot of ideas for stories, but every time I want to develop them into a full fledged story, I get paranoid about how

It's hard to easily quantify how original something is. Everything has been done before in some way. Your goal is to bring a new voice to the table and have that voice be novel in some way. You don't have to create an entire new world, language, or species to make something original. Some of the most fascinating things I've written start with well worn ideas and insert interesting novel elements into them.

Start writing and go from there. If your feel your rehashing or doing something to similar to others works, change it. NEVER, copy someone else's work.

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