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Q&A Originality of Writing

I have been writing a book, and often times I feel like a lot of the elements in my story are just Freudian slips. I'm not plagiarizing or anything, but sometimes I will go back and read through my...

3 answers  ·  posted 10y ago by Keychain1‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T04:00:06Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/16019
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Keychain1‭ · 2019-12-08T04:00:06Z (almost 5 years ago)
I have been writing a book, and often times I feel like a lot of the elements in my story are just Freudian slips. I'm not plagiarizing or anything, but sometimes I will go back and read through my drafts, only to remember another story I read/watched with similar elements.

A related problem: How can I take things I've written that are a little to cliche / unoriginal and make them original? Also, how can I avoid this in the future?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2015-01-27T00:56:51Z (almost 10 years ago)
Original score: 9