Transform Your Writing by Stealing Everyone’s Stories
Being original is impossible anyway
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5 min readOct 21, 2020
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…