Hello fellow readers :)
Recently I have been getting some backlash for the similarities from another novel that are seen in my current ongoing book OMNL, I’m pretty sure everyone who has seen the comments understand what I’m talking about.
A few months ago I was just a girl who wanted to write about two athletes falling in love, and decided to partner up with one of my close friends who I knew was great at story development. She came up with a few ideas and I wrote them up, but recently I have noticed how many replies there were addressing this issue, so I messaged the author of the book that was apparently plagiarised by me. I offered to discontinuing the story if it would help the present situation, and though they have not replied, I am considering going through with this.
I have discussed with my writing partner, and she had confessed that a lot of her ideas and concepts were taken from the book. I consider this unacceptable as it made my writing seem of no worth and just pasted. It started as fun, but now that the comments have flooded the discussion section I feel like my novel is not in fact mine but someone else’s.
I do feel guilty that someone else’s work is being associated with this, so I hope you understand reader, and that I am truly sorry for this incident.
-Mel