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Q&A Original writing is lost when using other people's ideas?

Let's say you have a story about a fictional war on a futuristic world and you already have five chapters going on and you want to keep writing to get to the end but then, you're stuck because you ...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Thezil‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T04:33:42Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/18702
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Thezil‭ · 2019-12-08T04:33:42Z (almost 5 years ago)
Let's say you have a story about a fictional war on a futuristic world and you already have five chapters going on and you want to keep writing to get to the end but then, you're stuck because you don't really know how to kill the enemies without taking off the credibility of the story(adding something that can happen in real life) and then you ask for help on a forum or on worldbuilding stackexchange, or talking to other people about it. You get answers, and that give you some pretty good ideas, so you continue to write three more chapters, but then you're stuck again and ask for help again, and you get another answers, ideas from other people that fit perfectly with your story so you finish your story.

So, when you reach that point, can you really say it was your original work, or truly yours? and so if there are any legal repercussions about it?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2015-08-18T19:47:48Z (over 9 years ago)
Original score: 1