I wanna create a series about a wizard boy in the style of J.K. Rowling and Jenny Nimmo I want some ideas and help so I can make the series without it looking like a ripoff? P.S. feel free to throw in ideas.
2007-03-11 17:01:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Seeing as how it's about a wizard boy, everyone will look at it as a rip-off.
My advice, make him something different. Why does it have to be a wizard?
Remember, it's the character and their story that's most important, not their settings.
2007-03-11 20:23:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
... Don't make a story about a wizard boy in the style of J.K. Rowling would be the easiest without seeming like a ripoff.
Just make sure your plot and characters and setting differ a lot from Harry Potter and it won't seem much like a ripoff.
Really, keep the creativity to yourself. A fiction writer myself, I never ever take creative advice from other people. If they give it to me without me asking, I never show them my writing again.
Also, there is a difference between influence and ripoff. It's absolutely fine to be influenced by Harry Potter, what with the wizard boy and all, just don't make it too similar.
2007-03-11 17:12:40 · answer #2 · answered by Butch Cassidy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, just about everything is a recycled idea of something else. Nothing's original anymore. So no matter what you do, some might still see it as a ripoff. Write whatever you want. Writing's not about pleasing other people. At the end of the day, it's something you just have to do. You have to get it out before it bursts inside of your head. If you're doing it just to make money, or just to make people happy, you won't make it very far.
2007-03-11 17:06:14 · answer #3 · answered by Becca 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make it where the wizard boy travels around from place to place helping others like on "Kung-Fu the Series." He could have many adventures and it would be easy to create more stories in the series.
2007-03-11 17:11:56 · answer #4 · answered by InspireTomorrow.com 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I might be better able to help if I knew why you chose a wizard boy as the subject.
2007-03-11 17:07:06 · answer #5 · answered by buzzgirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could always do it about a young wizard who shuns wizardry and then later on actively uses it to help destroy witch craft. A sort of teen angst story with a twist.
2007-03-11 17:08:41 · answer #6 · answered by shabushabu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AWESOME!
Nice plot going there...
How about a wizard boy that learns his parents want to kill him for being so powerful- more powerful than them and he spends his whole life saving his hide only to find that his powers are slowly fading and he needs to kills his parents before they become too powerful to kill him first..
GOOD LUCK!!!!
-D
2007-03-11 18:37:23 · answer #7 · answered by LadyDragonRider 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋