Let’s dispel a little myth right away: nobody is 100% original.
Let’s dispel a little myth right away: nobody is 100% original. Writers have been sharing ideas and borrowing from each other since the dawn of language. In fact, this borrowing of ideas is well-documented: Dante’s Inferno and Milton’s Paradise Lost reinterpret Biblical canon, just like William Golding based Lord of the Flies off the children’s book The Coral Island.