Yes! One of the things I meant to mention was reading Neil Gaiman saying that while writing Neverwhere, he avoided other books that clearly dealt with the areas he was writing about, including another book that had a kind of London "underground" feel, and similar things.
Oh, totally. This is important because the wrong exposure at the wrong time can totally kill an idea.
Maybe it's the beginning to watch a live show (SV) while also having writerly thoughts? With HL, I didn't write anything while HL was live, and even when I was writing, it wasn't so much ideas that might obviously "overlap" other writers.
Certainly live fandoms present a whole other host of issues. I've never written in one, so I'm not sure what I would do or how I would react to the other stories being written. I can well imagine it would make me wary of reading, though. A lot more than in a closed canon show.
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Date: 2003-07-14 03:42 pm (UTC)Oh, totally. This is important because the wrong exposure at the wrong time can totally kill an idea.
Maybe it's the beginning to watch a live show (SV) while also having writerly thoughts? With HL, I didn't write anything while HL was live, and even when I was writing, it wasn't so much ideas that might obviously "overlap" other writers.
Certainly live fandoms present a whole other host of issues. I've never written in one, so I'm not sure what I would do or how I would react to the other stories being written. I can well imagine it would make me wary of reading, though. A lot more than in a closed canon show.