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I vehemently disagree that it's an issue that's strictly got two options. Also, you don't know my friends very well. I've talked to at least one of them about this since I posted this and he said he...

Well, I mean that was kind of my question... I already have people I can go to for feedback, that wasn't the problem.

I pretty much already figured that... That's not really what my question pertained to. It was a way to overcome this problem.

Alright, might take a look at that.

And well it's no "partner" or "partners." Just friends who happen to be writers. And it has little to do with trust right now. Just because I'm friends with a...

Yeah, that doesn't work at all... The whole point of the criticism is to make it better, not to just have it out there.

Uuuum... yeah... I don't want that. Which is what this thread was all about, finding a way to not have that happen.

Yes, I do.

That wouldn't really help me... I think you're completely missing the point of my original question. My problem is not that I don't have people already, real-life people, that can...

For criticism. As well as input on what they like and don't like.

Well, I knew that....

And I agree. But I wasn't really talking about the internet, I was talking about people I know in real life who are also writers.

That's already what I was talking about... But not all people you think are friends end up being trustworthy and it's always possible to have a falling out with someone who was a genuine friend and...

The 19th century? I think you're a few centuries behind... >.<

I'm not posting my stuff publically on the internet... so not sure how this is relevant.

Also, I'd say if you really wanted to you probably could sue whatever corporation was making money off of...

Well, I don't live in the United States... but aside from that, why would my ideas be any more protected by any of those options?

Well, but a contract can say pretty much anything you both agree on, no? It doesn't necessarily have to be a standard non-disclosure. But in other words you don't know how I would go about doing this?

Wouldn't I need a lawyer for that and whatnot?

I'm not actually talking about posting on forums necessarily here, more about talking to people I know IRL about this stuff. I'm always worried that if me and one of those people ever drifted apart,...

Well, I've spent many years of my life creating some of the things I'm working on and some of them I really like. So certainly I am worried about that and not about any contribution they may have...

I hope you'll all forgive me, but I'm just going to jump right into this.

As a writer it is occassionally pretty helpful to get other people's opinions on something you've written, an idea you've...

Well, it mainly bothers me because it’s a full sequence of events (such as the rebellion and cataclysmic event) and concepts (a second more advanced human race) that interact in a similar way, occur...

Has it been answered by them? Yes. But I'm here because I want to hear many different viewpoints on what I should do, to then be able to select the one I think is best or even select the best things...

So you interpret original as something that doesn't resemble anything in reality? That seems a rather unhandy definition though. Since it's literally impossible. Just from a pragmatic point of view,...

I don't know what you're referring to exactly when you say "those sentences and that example are more of a philosophical concept" or what point that makes. Saying that they're a philosophical concept...

Yeah, I realise that. But this isn't so much about any fear I have of lawsuits or copyright issues, but rather about me not wanting to write a story that's already been written or for it to seem as...

Well I'm not gonna claim you're not right in saying that I'm getting too hung up on this issue, I might well be. It's just that I really hate the idea of writing something that's already been written...

That's impossble considering that there needed to be a human mind to come up with those ideas in the first place, thus they had to be original at some point even though that doesn't necessarily mean...