>You're not in the same position, most obviously because you haven't been caught, secondarily because (I assume) you're not as famous
These don't make the thing easier to deal with, as a crime is a crime regardless of its extent. Transgressing a fairly basic ethical code isn't something I can live with, even if it wasn't my intention to do that. I already feel "caught" by my own conscience, which is more than enough to force my hand in imposing the appropriate punishment. Sorry to blogpost but my writing career is over, and I guess this is how crooks and frauds feel when they've been outed, as I feel like basically not existing now.
Gavin Kelly
Just calm down. If, on the near zero percent chance it happens, someone accuses you of plagiarism, you can deal with it then. Don't get so worked up over something that hasn't happened yet and almost certainly never will
Evan Cruz
>Be me in high school journalism >Have to make 2 articles a month for a grade with a minimum word count >Talented writer but a lazy fuck so I basically copy 2 different book reviews in different order and change it up >It gets printed in the fucking paper
Years later and Im still looking over my shoulder...
Tell me it doesnt matter bros
Nicholas Brooks
You're right OP. You're career is done. Just post the novella and your story so you can move on.
Jaxon Martinez
Crimes require intent, and you didn't intend to plagiarize that story for some personal gain. Was Shakespeare a criminal for taking all of his plots from other, more original sources? Should no one ever read the Aeneid because of how heavily Virgil was influenced by the Iliad and Odyssey? Literature is built off of influence from past writers, there's nothing wrong with using ideas from another work in your own
Robert Johnson
>walking back your bizarre retroactive claim of criminal intent Absolute kek. Gonna be honest, this thread is a bunch of fun. Thanks, OP.
Hunter Foster
Just turn yourself in right now OP
Blake Reed
>Crimes require intent Shit, man, I don't wanna add fire to OP's retarded, anxiety-ridden salted wound, but we all know that crime doesn't necessarily require intent
Eli Sanders
I appreciate this, but why then do so many writers have their careers destroyed by accusations of plagiarism? Granted it's usually the case that said writers copy actual quotations etc from other books (as in the case of the New York Times editor recently) but still, I think what I did was more, or at least will be perceived as being more, than just an innocent tribute slash inside joke.
