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Well, what I'm saying is that considering my age and lack of inspiration from a variety of sources/practice in the craft of storytelling, I doubt that I can produce an interesting and compelling piece of work at THIS time.
I mean...I can't even craft a story without drawing too much influence from something. My first novel had scenes that were pretty much similar to those from the Ultimate Spider-Man comic book series.
So...not to beat myself up, but how can a teenager craft a compelling piece of work? There ARE talented teenage writers at my age out in the world, but I don't think I'm one of them, tbh. It's why I'm envious of other teenagers that can do what /I/ do, but like a thousand times better.
No, I haven't. Thanks for the link.
Read more. That's how you get more inspiration and different ideas and learn about what's there.
Right. I just can't seem to come up with anything that isn't derivative from something that already exists.
I really want to have the protagonist of the story sacrifice all of his powers in order to save his best friend/love, and end up practically dead, but that's derivative from Hunter x Hunter. That's the issue.
In the second part of the series, though, the protagonist is basically back to normal and without his special abilities. So he's weak/nerfed. Pretty much derivative of Hunter X Hunter since this happened to that series' protagonist. :/
I was warned not to do the whole "race of aliens" thing because my influence from Hunter X Hunter is too strong, but...I really like the idea. Though, it sounds way too similar, imo.
I have no idea what Hunter X Hunter is. The first thing, with the hero sacrificing his powers to save someone is derivative - it's Superman 3, and a couple other things I can think off. I'd wager it's 100 other things too.
You sound like every idea you have is to basically rewrite this one er... thing... you liked. The problem is there's one thing. If you'd read sixty other things with similar themes, and fifty things with a different theme, you'd see how differently stuff can be done, and what you like and what you don't, the subtle ways writers make things their own and build worlds and etc., and that'd help you do it yourself.
If you've only ever heard one or two pieces of music, or seen one painting, and then tried to create art or music, it'd be those things over again. That's not a foundation.