Q: Do you mind books with similar ideas to other books? Similar concepts, backgrounds, re-tellings or pulled-to-publish fanfic?
Well I'm strict when it comes to fanfics that jump into published books, no matter how good they are they need a good revision, an adaptation of the characters, because they are based on someone else's characters and I feel it's kinda hard to really own an idea that was based on someone else and that your characters and story are based 100% on it.
I do feel its different for re-tellings, re-tellings have an opportunity to loosely based their self's an really own the world that was based maybe in an old fairy tale or story. In my head a re-telling starts being loosely based on the story to the point that the author can take as much liberty with the story as he/she wants.
Similar ideas, how similar? Like when everyone suddenly wants to write about faeries or vampires? well that leaves the authors a large margin of space to play around with it's like comparing Twilight to The Morganville Vampires, the only thing they have in common is that they both have vampires... and that is all they share.
What do you think???
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