{"id":1659,"date":"2021-04-16T08:29:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T07:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edgeverse.org\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2021-04-16T08:30:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T07:30:35","slug":"originality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/edgeverse.org\/?p=1659","title":{"rendered":"Originality"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Something we see in Western media a lot of these days is a growing lack of originality. There was a movie called \u2018Battle Royale\u2019, a Japanese film about a group of young people dropped into an arena, where they have to kill each other to the last man. That was the inspiration for the Hunger Games, which inspired Divergent, Maze Runner, and a host of other increasingly poor copies of copies of copies. Battle Royale itself was based on \u2018Lord of the Flies\u2019, so it wasn\u2019t even an original idea that was being copied in the first place; it never is, of course.<\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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We\u2019ve seen it come around again with Vampires. First it was modern movie remakes of Dracula, then came Twilight, and then the dams burst and a flood of increasingly poor replicas found their way to bookshelves.<\/p>

Now, make no mistake about it, this is the lowest form of literature, and nobody should find it acceptable. \u2018The Vampire Diaries\u2019 wasn\u2019t even a novel, in the literal sense. The publishing house wanted to enter the market with its own series, so they came up with a title and then hired an author to knock out content as fast as possible, before the fad melted away. The writer probably made next to nothing in commission and was, reportedly, replaced later on.<\/p>

The quality of these stories is, as you would expect, on the low side. Of course it is. These novels are written fast, the writer has no interest in them, no rights or creative control and no emotional investment. They are literally filling a gap in the market and nothing more. There is no art about this, it\u2019s pure consumerism deigned to abuse the entire system. It\u2019s quite deliberately putting out a massively inferior product, it shows no respect to the audience and it treats the creator even worse.<\/p>

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The trend towards \u2018sexy\u2019 vampire fiction has changed a once iconic symbol of depravity into something to be aspired to. We now see ridiculous images like the one above where once, vampires represented something that actually had substance. <\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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My research into the industry over the years has shown me how damaged it is. I\u2019ve been told that most publishers have bots analysing consumer trends and then they target their interest in those areas.<\/p>

Sadly, new writers aren\u2019t angry about this, many of them are misguidedly trying to jump on the bandwagon. It can\u2019t work, of course, because the next big thing never slavishly copies the last one. Most new writers have absolutely no hope of finishing a decent piece of work in time to get on the trend platform, and even if they did, they\u2019d be a tiny voice in a huge crowd.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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But writers should be<\/i> angry. This copy-and-paste mentality means that creativity and originality are not just stifled, they\u2019re being actively riled against. What hope has a truly new and inspiring piece of work got when the publishers only want to take safe, easy options at filling gaps in the market? Perhaps this explains why ninety-nine percent of literature fails to make a profit?<\/p>

As an author, your originality should be enshrined in every line of your work. You should be proud to be a singular voice and to have your unique perspective on the world. There is only one thing you can really be, after all, and that thing is you.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Originality is about really understanding who you are. It\u2019s about seeing past the influence of others, the saccharine trends of the mainstream media and the unconscious bullying of public perception and targeted advertising. It comes from expressing what is real about you. It\u2019s about writing from the core of your personality and letting that light shine out in every line of your creation.<\/p>

Don\u2019t let yourself be swallowed up by clich\u00e9s and tropes, rise above all that and create work that might change the world. The audience isn\u2019t getting any smarter, or being intellectually challenged by sparkling vampires, and they\u2019re losing interest in reading because of it.<\/p>

Are you going to be the kind of person to help chase those values away, or are you going to be someone who embraces your integrity? Will you create something special\u2014something nobody else in the world can create, because nobody else is quite exactly like you?<\/p>

The authors who do that are the ones we remember; they\u2019re the ones that change the world. As a writer, we have a responsibility to our readers, ourselves, the future of our species and to the integrity of our work.<\/p>

We have to be better than the mediocrity that litters the bookshelves. It\u2019s up to us to be better than we were, and strive to create stories that inspire ideas, ideas that create positive change in the world.<\/p>

It\u2019s up to you to decide who you are, and it\u2019s nobody else\u2019s right to make that decision for you.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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