Yes, I am a bit. I was doing some research into what was on the Internet regarding UFO’s purely out of interest for my book you understand only to find that a person in the 1960’s no less was suggesting exactly what I wanted to make one of the key features of my book.
Now I find that not only shocking, but also worrying because I am about to borrow his suggestion and develop it into a theme. I think I am OK doing that, but I would like to know for certain. Is it literary theft if I use his idea (do I have to attribute)? And how badly of is it thought?
That leads me on to a very similar theme that I did mention not so many posts ago about wanting to use real places in Dorset, but being concerned about using real place names, so I thought about using Thomas Hardy’s “universe“ the place names he constructed for example Casterbridge being Dorchester.
I know of a place on Facebook where I can pose the question. I’ll let you know how it goes, but not tonight. Tired now.
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