“Originality is something that is prized in modern-day fiction, at the very same time it is proclaimed to be impossible….This leaves a lot of authors in a bind. On the one hand, originality is held up as an absolute, fundamental prerequisite for high quality writing...On the other hand, any author who stops to think clearly for more than a few minutes will have to recognize that after some four thousand years of recorded human history and storytelling, finding an original story to tell, or something new to say about the human condition, is going to be nearly impossible.” Patricia Wrede on Originality: pcwrede/originality-fanfiction-and-a-few-other-thing
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