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#1 2012-04-20 19:38:25

samurai768
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Would people think I'm copying if...

I wrote a story and the main character is an archer? I wrote this story before I heard about the Hunger Games and I don't want people to think I "just stole the main character from the hunger games blah blah blah". Because that's happened to me with a different story -.-"

So... if you think it is or i should change it, please let me know what other class she could be. Thank you  big_smile

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#2 2012-04-20 19:45:56

coolhogs
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Re: Would people think I'm copying if...

No...
If you do a whole different plot and characters, that is fine..


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#3 2012-04-20 19:48:29

turkey3
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Re: Would people think I'm copying if...

coolhogs wrote:

No...
If you do a whole different plot and characters, that is fine..

That^ also, think of remixing. It's kind I the same, just wih little tweaks and minor, or major changes.

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#4 2012-04-20 20:31:50

rodentqween9
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Re: Would people think I'm copying if...

Not really. It really depends on what his/her personality is. I have seen many shows with people who have their own similarities but I wasn't that bothered by it because they had many differences too. ( or at least most of them did.)

Also Unless the story is also very similar to the hunger games I am pretty sure no one will say you are copying the hunger games.  wink

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#5 2012-04-21 04:49:26

LS97
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Re: Would people think I'm copying if...

Just make sure you're not portraying the character as a fierce girl who grew up in a poor country ruled by a dictatorship, and you'll be fine. I didn't even think about the Hunger Games at first when you mentioned the archer  smile

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#6 2012-04-21 06:09:13

PlutoIsHades
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Re: Would people think I'm copying if...

LS97 wrote:

Just make sure you're not portraying the character as a fierce girl who grew up in a poor country ruled by a dictatorship, and you'll be fine. I didn't even think about the Hunger Games at first when you mentioned the archer  smile

Well, the character could be a fierce, poor girl, just as long as she doesn't participate in any Hunger-Game-like thing. 
Yeah, it's totally fine!  I have a story where the main character is a touch archer girl but I hadn't even read the Hunger Games - actually I don't think it was even popular yet - when I was writing her story.

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#7 2012-04-21 08:06:22

maxskywalker
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Re: Would people think I'm copying if...

I don't know why they would...

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#8 2012-04-21 08:21:11

777w
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Re: Would people think I'm copying if...

barbarian
you never see many female barbarians, itd be an original concept

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#9 2012-04-21 12:26:10

Wickimen
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Re: Would people think I'm copying if...

It wouldn't be copying. Suzanne Collins didn't invent the concept of shooting arrows at people.


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#10 2012-04-21 12:28:49

veggieman001
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Re: Would people think I'm copying if...

I probably wouldn't have even associated the two had you not posted such a topic as this.


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#11 2012-04-21 12:37:09

slinger
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Re: Would people think I'm copying if...

Yes; I'd be totally offended.
Naw, I think that it's fine to write a story about a girl w/ a bow :p
Of course if the person who wrote the book loves political power then get ready to be sued  tongue

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#12 2012-04-21 23:16:28

bananaman114
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Re: Would people think I'm copying if...

I'm offended that you would use archery in a story
it's so much like the Hunger Games
you copied Suzanne Collins

no it's fine


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#13 2012-04-21 23:19:39

scimonster
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Re: Would people think I'm copying if...

The Hunger Games isn't the only story about archers out there.  tongue  Just the most popular right now.
You wouldn't be copying.

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