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We all have our own scrapped ideas for a story, whether it's an original or a fanfic. You spent your time playing out the plot and characters in your head, maybe worldbuild a little here and there, but then you scrapped it. It could be because you were unconfident, lazy, or just plainly forgot about it. What matters is, we all have them.
At the time, the idea might have felt like a stroke of genius, like you truly had found a story no one has ever done before, or maybe a story you know will be your magnum opus. But when it pops back into your mind years later, your face shrunk instinctively.
Maybe you realized the plot is just a ripoff of something else, or maybe it just sounded stupid all of a sudden.
Have any of you had this happen? How often do your old ideas make a comeback and how likely are they to make you want to punch your old self?
In my case, it reminded me of the absolute edge of my 14-year-old self with a story revolving around a bunch of cluttered plots: magic, terrorists, dystopian, sci-fi, romance, revenge, school, reincarnated gods, angst, etc. I never actually wrote a single word of it, but I played out the plot of the story countless times in my head when I was young... and boy, it was every edgy kids' wet dream.
At the time, the idea might have felt like a stroke of genius, like you truly had found a story no one has ever done before, or maybe a story you know will be your magnum opus. But when it pops back into your mind years later, your face shrunk instinctively.
Maybe you realized the plot is just a ripoff of something else, or maybe it just sounded stupid all of a sudden.
Have any of you had this happen? How often do your old ideas make a comeback and how likely are they to make you want to punch your old self?
In my case, it reminded me of the absolute edge of my 14-year-old self with a story revolving around a bunch of cluttered plots: magic, terrorists, dystopian, sci-fi, romance, revenge, school, reincarnated gods, angst, etc. I never actually wrote a single word of it, but I played out the plot of the story countless times in my head when I was young... and boy, it was every edgy kids' wet dream.
