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How to be inspired without copying The question “is my work too derivative?” tends to be the wrong question entirely. The better question is whether you’ve absorbed enough different things, and absorbed them with enough seriousness, that the combination is uncopyable. A writer who’s only ever read three contemporary literary novelists will produce derivative work no matter how hard he pushes…
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