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Is it wrong to use an idea from a story, but with all the other details different ?
for ex. If a male get pregnant, but i got that from a different story, and all the characters, the setting, and the story is completely different. Is that still wrong?
Posted at 2007-04-10 18:15:52
facia No, it's not wrong, but if you got the idea somewhere, it's polite to give credit to the other story for inspiring yours.
Posted at 2007-04-10 18:36:57
kebito really? thanks cuz ive had trouble with that i am going to give credit where is due. thanks facia
Posted at 2007-04-10 18:42:03
PikaBot Don't write Mpreg. it's not original, it's not clever, and it's really really retarded.
Posted at 2007-04-10 22:09:20
facia Um...although many people don't like mpreg, many other people do. There's nothing wrong with it.
Posted at 2007-04-11 09:59:19
kebito ahaa its a crackfic lol i saw it in a sory and i started laughing... like hard lol
Posted at 2007-04-11 21:31:09
JesusKetchum31 I understand why people dislike mpreg, but I think a blanket ban on it is a little excessive. Crackfic mpreg can be really funny if done well, for one. I agree that mpreg is usually awful in serious fanfics, but it isn't necessarily--in some science fiction series, it can actually make a degree of sense.

After all, Star Trek (ENT) did mpreg. Then again, Star Trek is also where the term "slash" comes from by all accounts I've heard...
Posted at 2007-04-12 08:08:36
kebito hmm..... blah i cant write. I want to contribute and i get like good ideas, but i can never seem to remember them, or i have trouble putting it down in paper, or so to speak.
Posted at 2007-04-13 21:52:11
Rous I do not think there is anything wrong with using an idea. How many original ones are there, anymore? I have three different original fictions that deal with alternate universes and gateways between them. I will admit that the idea has been explored by big name published authors, but the story line and characters are all mine; I borrow neither names or worlds from anyone else.

I recently saw "Eregon". The first thing that popped into my head was not LOTR, but Dragonriders of Pern. It was blatant enough that I wonder that Anne McCaffery does not sue. Still, there are other stories about dragons; does that make the story plagiarized? I do not believe so.

And, from what I hear, this "Eregon" was originally a LOTR fanfic which was rewritten as a Star Wars fanfic (or vice versa) before being presented as an original.

Male pregnancy: Enemy Mine with Lou Gosset, Jr and Dennis Quaid. I recently bought it because I really liked it when it came out. It worked for me because it was an alien that was pregnant. I do not read them in most fanfic because they are to icky. On the other hand, if you want to write about MPREG, then write about seahorses; no one can call that icky.
Posted at 2007-04-14 20:39:41

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