Griffin
Minstrel
What do you when you realize that your story has already been done? I am not talking about being original or anything. We all know the case on that. I'm talking about when you come up with a story idea and you indulge an unlucky victim your idea. They inform you that your idea "sounds just like [insert movie/book/videogame]."
I thought about pulling a twist on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It was going to be dark and twisted. Turns out, a PC game already exists called "American McGee's Alice" that has a very similar plotline. I scrapped that original idea and created a new one. Still Alice in Wonderland, but just a different storyline.
But what would you do? Would you just drop your story and move on? Change it up? Or keep it and push it forward?
I thought about pulling a twist on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It was going to be dark and twisted. Turns out, a PC game already exists called "American McGee's Alice" that has a very similar plotline. I scrapped that original idea and created a new one. Still Alice in Wonderland, but just a different storyline.
But what would you do? Would you just drop your story and move on? Change it up? Or keep it and push it forward?