OT: Simultaneous Ideas or Procrastination Doesn't Pay

[Targan]

The Matrix came out before Vanilla Sky (but after Abre los Ojos) and featured many similar metaphysical themes. And the concept of Homo Superior (and probably that exact term) has been around for a looong time. Heck, when I watched the Lord of the Rings films I was blown away by Legolas' fighting style, as many of the moves he makes in those films were EXACTLY the same as many fighting moves my Harnmaster character Tarquin Melfea (Targan the Quick) had made in a campaign a decade before.

[Raellus]

I really wonder if anything truly original can be produced any more. Everything is derivative to some degree- music, film, literature. With all of the rehashes and reboots out there at the moment, it seems like this is more true today than it ever has been before. Anyway...

I've got to commit some of my ideas to paper in a full treatment, whether it be a novel or a screenplay, before someone else produces a more or less identical conceptual product.

[simonmark6]

http://www.advancedfictionwriting.co...wflake-method/

This guy has a solid way of developing an extended piece of writing.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Originally Posted by Targan

The Matrix came out before Vanilla Sky (but after Abre los Ojos) and featured many similar metaphysical themes.

You could make a similar case for Ender's Game.

However, Abre los Ojos and Vanilla Sky were...warmer, more human, had more pathos than either of those.

But that's a matter of personal nuance, really.