–Sorry in advance for the length. As I sad, be a real (wo)man and read it all!! I really need help on this :/
Have you ever been trying to write a book and then gotten depressed because someone has said its similar to something else?
I can promise that I havent read Harry Potter, and its also really depressing that my friend has compared my story to it because HP is so popular. I don’t want to be compared when I’m published, because I don’t want my book scrutinized.
There are these similarities, supposedly:
1. My story has a magic school
2. My magicians use wands
3. My story involves immortality and souls
It’s disheartening and I don’t want to lose my motivation to write, because I’ve spent years creating my fantasy world and I have weaved up the plot, characters and everything COMPLETELY myself
Things in my defense are:
1. My story is set in the 16-17th century, and the school is simply like a regular magic school in a fantasy book, like plenty of other books, not some hidden place in our day and age. The school is also not so important to the plot (important enough to be necessary but not directly relevant to my main story — only two chapters are set there)
2. I have an innovative magic system that I think is quite fresh, and wands are necessary, so I can’t change them, and there’s no shouting out of words or anything (I dont want to reveal this)
3. Immortality and Souls are also crucial to the story, and are the driving force of some the antagonists. I did not know HP had immortality in it, but I’m sure Rowling isnt the first person to use either of these. I’ve thought up ways for my characters to be immortal
Could you please tell me what you think about these things? Soften it if you have to lol.
Also, in my story, when a body/vessel is damaged enough their soul will escape. This is ‘death’. One of the antagonists is a man with his soul stapled to his body with magic. His body heals near-instantly, and so if he’s ‘killed’ he won’t ‘die’ because his soul remains til his body is functioning again — making him immortal (as he just gets back up). That’s not like Voldemort, is it?
He’s not the only immortal, but the only one that might be similar.
Thanks in advance folks (y)
