Does originality exist anymore?
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Re: Does originality exist anymore?
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May be because we humans are supposed to feel/exhibit just four or six types of emotions!!
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What is different, however, is how we relate to those emotions, and how we react, either physically or mentally. And this would provide the basis for writing a story about these feelings. So while emotional independence may not be fresh, the reflection that you work with within that emotional envelope would lead to a new story or new direction.
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Remember, even a single story can be told a million different ways. Try to make your version the most thought-provoking!
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This novel contains six connected stories which vary in style from comedy, to murder mystery, to sci-fi, to historical drama and take place beginning in the 1700s and extending to the distant future. The novel begins in the 1700s and then progresses to the 1930s, then to the 1970s, then to the present, then to the future (~2100s) and then to the distant future. At this point you are at the middle of the book. Then the order reverses itself revisiting each of the periods and resolving questions which were left unanswered in the first half of the book. This was very ambitious and courageous writing which culminated in a best seller.
Below is a trailer from the movie which was later made. In my opinion this is the finest trailer ever made, and in the opinion of one who has read the book it conveys precisely the "feel" of the book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWnAqFyaQ5s
It is the DELIVERY which is unique in this novel though the basic plots of the stories may arguably have been told before in other forms.
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The truth is: they probably have, but it's never written the same way or with the same emotions or 'feels'. You want yourslelf to reflect off of your work. Not your work reflecting off of someone else's work.
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BUT, the originality in writing is what you can do within those constraints. In a good technothriller, it has a plot you get into and can't stop reading, and it has characters you truly CARE about.
You could say that nothing written in English is original because ALL writing consists of the same 26 letters of the alphabet. But, wow, what you can do within that constraint can be phenomenal.
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