I get downright angry when I read something in a book that I am using in my own (incomplete!) book. Because then by the time my book is fit to be published it will look like I used someone else’s idea! I can’t stand it.
Although realistically most ideas have been used and reused already. They just come in different packaging and have different details. Still… it upsets me to think I could be criticized simply because someone else had their idea published before mine.
Grr.
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You are right in that most ideas have been used time and time again (there are only a limited number of basic concepts out there). Don’t worry about it – just be true to your own story.