Do you agree that "nothing is original"?

Everything derives from a single idea... originality is in how you spin it!

It depends on the definition you are using of "original. " Even the words I'm using now were made up by someone else.

I had a teacher say that to the class once. Right or wrong, it didn't sit well with me. "Everything is original" I thought to myself and slept uncomfortably that night.

The next day I dropped the class. I'm a dreamer. I don't have time for that "nothing is original" stuff (even if it is true).

Now that does make one ponder when writing something... hummm. My originality is based on my inner voice, my experiences and perceptions of them. If I write a fairy tale, I will stay true to form, but the content is mine.

If parody, then the thought is to pay homage to the original, yet, it will be uniquely it's own work. Ideas, idioms, parables, everything we learn from or see will become our own in the way of interpretation. Original?

Maybe not to the reader, but to the writer who put in an effort? Yeah, then it is original. As long as I pay tribute to that which sparked my story, then it should be an honor to the "original" owner of said tribute, but the rest would be my own... origin.

It is very possible to have an original thought, - for yourself. Sure, maybe someone already thought of it 20 years ago, or 10,000 years ago. Who cares.

I think if you think something up on your own without any influence from someone or something else, then it is an original thought. Then again, even the Bible says there is nothing new under the sun. - Harlan.

I think the only way something could be perfectly "original" is if it came to someone in a vacuum with no possibility of influence from another person. But that kind of defeats the whole idea of communication. I think the beauty of being human is the way we inspire URL1 may be that no thought is original but it is given new hues and layers by each person who thinks it.

I do not..............even if it has been represented before, if it is unseen or unheard of by you, it is an orginal thought in a new medium. While there is nothing new under the sun, it is still new to some.

Whether or not the Chicken came before the Egg, our culture is spawn of the previous culture, and media within our culture is spawn of previous media within our culture. Without cave drawings, we wouldn't have Scooby Doo.

Its funny to said Nothing is creating everything is copping.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.