Things that make one go argh.

[shadowscast]

Don't you hate it when you read someone else's story and it has a major plot point which is exactly the same as a major plot point which you had planned for your own story, your own story which hasn't even been written yet and likely won't be for many months, but for which the notes (including a full description of this particular plot point) have been sitting on your hard drive for months already? And now you fear that when/if you finally do write that story, which has been close to your heart for so long, everyone will think you got the idea from X?

It can't be just me.

*sigh*

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[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

It's not just you.

It's happened several times between me and theohara, both ways round, to the point where we have a running gag between us about wearing tinfoil hats to shut out each other's brainwaves. And one of my WIPs that hasn't been updated for a while is stalled because of exactly the circumstance you described; the plot point in question was absolutely crucial and I haven't been able to think of a way round it yet.

[shadowscast.livejournal.com]

Ah, clearly that's an unfortunate side-effect of the both of you being so incredibly brilliant. You're both overdrawing from the universal pool of Brilliant Ideas. *g*

P.S.

[shadowscast.livejournal.com]

Which one?

Re: P.S.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

The Nirvana Trilogy Part 3, "Lithium".