Subject: Re: [FFML] [FFML][FanFic] Regret (draft)
From: "Richard D. Lawson" <sterman@sprynet.com>
Date: 6/6/1996, 11:54 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

Marisa Price wrote:

ACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you break into my computer or something?!

Misa, just to let you know, that's pretty much what I felt when I read 
the kissing scene in L & L.  I was composing "Thy Inward Love" in my 
head, and had wanted to have very much the same scene.  I almost cut it 
out of my fanfic because it was so similar to yours, but I couldn't go 
against what my writer's heart was demanding.  It was so crucial to the 
story I wanted to tell.  I decided to accept it by saying something to 
myself like "Great minds think alike" and moving on with the scene as 
originally conceived.

So all I can say is, don't change your mind.  Write what you feel like 
writing, irrespective of similarity with other 'fics, or your 'fic will 
suffer.  And I'm so enjoying what you've come up with so far!

:)