Transform Your Writing by Stealing Everyone’s Stories

Being original is impossible anyway

Dustin T. Cox
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readOct 21, 2020

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Image by Robinraj Premchand from Pixabay

When I was finishing my BA in Fiction Writing, one of my classmates told me that she never reads anything. She said she wanted to “be an original,” and feared that exposure to other writers would inevitably turn her into a copy-cat. She was part of my peer review cohort, so I got to read her work every week. Her…

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