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What to do if your idea cheats on you

What to do if your idea cheats on you

Freak out of course!

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Have you ever wondered what you would do if you saw your (mostly) exact idea out in the wild, being used by someone other than yourself?

Liz Gilbert talks about this phenomena in her book Big Magic. She does a great job of telling the story about an idea she had for a novel about the Amazon, which she spent o…

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