Creative writing help...if i..?

Question

if i go online and find short story prompts, and actually make a story and [[long shot here]] get it published...could it//would it be considered plagerism?

cuz i have read that an idea can also be considered plagerism.

&&honestly i'm not trying to do anything but practice writing stories, which is the whole reason i'm looking at prompts. just for practice, no real intention of trying to get it published...unless it comes out extremely good.

Answer 1

no, that’s not plagiarism. Many authors took a small idea inspired by something they saw on television, in a magazine, or even in another book and it spurred a whole story for them. As an individual the one small idea takes over a whole new world and by the end you can’t hardly recognize the small detail that started the ball rolling. As long as you don't take these short stories and included them in your book. Just look at the aspect that interests you and see where your mind takes it. It probably isn't even close to where the original writer would have taken it.

Good luck!

Answer 2

No way, that's not what plagiarism is.  The prompt is just basically giving you an excuse to write about something, for practice, like you said.  If respond to the prompt in your own words, with your own arguments and claims, then that's your writing.  Plagiarism is when you steal someone else's creativity, like if you read someone's response to the same prompt and tried to pass it off as your own response to the prompt.  That obviosly would be dishonest.  The prompt is something that just gets the ball rolling.  Yeah, I'm pretty sure you don't even have to cite a prompt.

Answer 3

Yes, it is plagiarism if you're using another person's ideas and making them your own.

Answer 4

but that is just an idea if you say you r going to write a story about your dog learnig to fly and i say that sounds like a good idea and i ad on to it and say my dog also learned ho to weild a weapon that would be different right?

Answer 5

its not plagerism if you recognise the source that has give you the idea

even better, get permssion to use the idea

Answer 6

It's just not right to take other ppl's ideas and call them yours. Don't do it because it horrible. I know I'd be mad if some one stole my ideas. Just think of stuff on your own.

Answer 7

hey, to be honest nearly all authors these days take ideas and certain metaphors or similes from previous literary greats. what you write is all to do with experiences and events around you and that have happened to you... so you cant seriously claim that you have 'copied' someones work.

good luck with your writing