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I am currently occupied with the all-too-familiar pursuit of banging my head against a brick wall. In this case, I am attempting to make my novel original. Here's why: I've been developing the th...
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System
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2019-12-12T17:49:01Z (almost 5 years ago)
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System
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2019-12-08T05:37:33Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
I am currently occupied with the all-too-familiar pursuit of banging my head against a brick wall. In this case, I am attempting to make my novel original. Here's why: I've been developing the theory that originality is one of the main things that can turn a book into a bestseller in the short term. _Harry Potter_ combined magic with contemporary school systems in something that had never been seen before. _The Hunger Games_ hit upon the Dystopian setting, which spawned such things as _Divergent_ and _The Maze Runner_. The _Twilight_ books threw romance and vampires together. _Harry Potter_ obviously has excellent writing, but the writing of _The Hunger Games_ went downhill, particularly in the last book. _Twilight_ has been denounced as having terrible writing. If the writing was so bad, why did these books sell the way they did? To me, the answer is that they were original. **Is this a plausible theory? Can originality sell a book?** _Note: I am speaking in the short term here. I highly doubt that originality could create a classic; only good writing can do that._
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System
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2016-09-24T16:32:34Z (about 8 years ago)
Original score: 5