In my humble opinion... I found the comment about a story being written because the author wanted to read it to be the most revealing.... If more than one person thinks a particular chain of events would be fun to read, that does not make the reading any less enjoyable. Personally I know some of the most enjoyable passages in books are when something is written exactly as I imagined. Kind of like when you are having a conversation with good friends and you all unexpectedly and completely agree on some point. > This is getting kind of silly. > > My problem with using ideas that I've read on the list has nothing to do > with any legal questions. It has more to do with thinking, "Oh. Someone > else came up with that? Well, I guess it must be too predictable/" I hate > being predictable. On the other hand, changing something I think is cool > just because someone else had the idea is problamatical. > > For the moment, at least, I've left that scene in. By the time I get to the > end of the book, like as not I'll have decided that the scene doesn't fit in > anyway. > >