Nice to feel validated! I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I've worried about it before a couple of times, but it's never actually happened until now.
that's a story that you already owned, in your mind
That's it exactly. Which I think is part of why it bugs me; it's this unspecified annoyance, because it feels like it was stolen but it quite obviously wasn't.
JKR did use a minor plot device in Deathly Hallows I'd used in my WIP
Obviously she nicked it from you, by magic. You're not unoriginal at all - just look at The If Sieve, which I have read three chapters of and loved.
Oh, damnit. Now I have all this TBR guilt crashing down. the sequel to The Lies of Locke Lamora has been on my bedside table for a month, and I can't even look at the number of bookmarks I have waiting.
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that's a story that you already owned, in your mind
That's it exactly. Which I think is part of why it bugs me; it's this unspecified annoyance, because it feels like it was stolen but it quite obviously wasn't.
JKR did use a minor plot device in Deathly Hallows I'd used in my WIP
Obviously she nicked it from you, by magic. You're not unoriginal at all - just look at The If Sieve, which I have read three chapters of and loved.
Oh, damnit. Now I have all this TBR guilt crashing down. the sequel to The Lies of Locke Lamora has been on my bedside table for a month, and I can't even look at the number of bookmarks I have waiting.