It’s not plagiarism if you add ‘reinventing’ to ‘borrowed ideas’. Think about it, aren’t more than 90 percent of our beliefs borrowed? The world is too large a teacher and we its willing pupils.
As far as novel writing is concerned, it is wise to borrow the best of the best ideas from great authors, and [...]
Muse has descended. You’ve finally got a Great Idea that can be turned into a spectacular book. You want to begin writing now. But when you are ready with your hands on the keyboard and eyes glued to the computer screen, all that gets out of you are disjointed threads of your Great Idea. You [...]
Thank God you don’t have to dig for miles to get your raw material. But you do need to dig into people. Poking your nose in other people’s affairs is a must-do for writers. And still we don’t get a bad name. Lucky.
Another civil way to do it is to get it through sight, smell, [...]