I don’t particularly worry about my ideas being stolen. I do think, as Alison Kent said and I wish I could find the post, that outlining in detail an unsold project on the web could lead to trouble. I decided to pull down all the excerpts and blurbs for my uncontracted work after reading that last year, and I don’t regret it. I don’t want to sound paranoid, or like I think someone’s after my ideas, because I really don’t. But maybe it’s that superstition thing too. If it’s there, then maybe I’m jinxed by having it there.

When I say superstitious, I’m not talking about people stealing ideas, though I’m certain there’s something to be said about that. I’m talking about pulling back the curtain. If I go on and on and on about something that hasn’t sold and then it DOESN’T sell, may that not have a backlash?

This idea of idea stealing seems so pervasive doesn’t it? I like the collective conscious idea lol. I think some “idea overlap” is just inevitable. I have a novella coming out next week that I’ve recently discovered shares some characteristics with another’s writer’s work. That I’ve never read. I don’t know how that happens, but it does. So yep, collective conscious. I like it lol.

Course, I know a bit better now, but that did take a step. Now i wans’t horrible, mind you, and the worry only ran over me that first time I submitted……… but then I got over it when I realizd how much help I was getting.