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Jul. 22nd, 2004 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spankerellaWell, today started out ok... then it just want crashing downhill into this horrible fiery mess of a train wreck.
I honestly feel sick. Like I am going to throw up. For real. My face is all hot, and I'm shakey because I'm so upset. Another author sorta kinda accused me of plagiarism. You all know how I feel about that. I would NEVER. I was accused on two counts. I checked out the first one. It looks bad. I honestly didn't remember the plot twist in one of her fics that I'd used for the basis of mine. I'd read that part in her fic about 3 months ago and have read many other things since then. It really wasn't that big of a leap to me, the situation, the specifics, but I can see how it looks bad. VERY bad. Also, I really don't think I'm going the same way with it, but it embarrasses me all the same that it happened. I added a note crediting her with the plot. I've apologised, but you know how some people can be about things sometimes... especially when upset. I should know... I'm one of those people. I have this nagging sense of dread that this person won't believe me when I say what happened was not intentional.
And I'm a bit horrified by the second accusation... because it's not me. I never wrote the pairing talked about in this other time. It just goes right back to that 'ahh, so that's what you think'. I have to wonder why she thought that was me too. Why was that connection so easily made?
I sorta feel like I wanna cry about a little. I know, what f*cking baby, right? But I'm just so upset. I don't even want to go to work tonight. I haven't gotten dressed at all for trying to deal with this, and I have to leave the house in 25 minutes now.
eta: Apparently, the second one WAS me, but it's not what you think. I had someone come back from the dead in the same way. The fic was different, with different pairings, different plot points, and everything, and it's even a non-issue now as my fic is not posted anywhere... save the archives of a yahoo group which I am now considering deleting those posts. I'd forgotten it was even still there until this. Also, i had credited that part to her in the ANs.
The thing of this part of it is... this author proved it by showing me part of a review that someone posted on my fic where they mention the similarity. Now, this is a review that had lots of other things in it that REALLY upset me at the time. That is perhaps why I don't remember that part of it. It was a review I felt was truthful, but overly harsh. I don't know how I feel about this other author having it.
Though I was believed when I said none of it had been done with intent. That relieves me a bit. But the shock of this hasn't worn off yet. I still don't feel well... and now I am officially late to work.
I honestly feel sick. Like I am going to throw up. For real. My face is all hot, and I'm shakey because I'm so upset. Another author sorta kinda accused me of plagiarism. You all know how I feel about that. I would NEVER. I was accused on two counts. I checked out the first one. It looks bad. I honestly didn't remember the plot twist in one of her fics that I'd used for the basis of mine. I'd read that part in her fic about 3 months ago and have read many other things since then. It really wasn't that big of a leap to me, the situation, the specifics, but I can see how it looks bad. VERY bad. Also, I really don't think I'm going the same way with it, but it embarrasses me all the same that it happened. I added a note crediting her with the plot. I've apologised, but you know how some people can be about things sometimes... especially when upset. I should know... I'm one of those people. I have this nagging sense of dread that this person won't believe me when I say what happened was not intentional.
And I'm a bit horrified by the second accusation... because it's not me. I never wrote the pairing talked about in this other time. It just goes right back to that 'ahh, so that's what you think'. I have to wonder why she thought that was me too. Why was that connection so easily made?
I sorta feel like I wanna cry about a little. I know, what f*cking baby, right? But I'm just so upset. I don't even want to go to work tonight. I haven't gotten dressed at all for trying to deal with this, and I have to leave the house in 25 minutes now.
eta: Apparently, the second one WAS me, but it's not what you think. I had someone come back from the dead in the same way. The fic was different, with different pairings, different plot points, and everything, and it's even a non-issue now as my fic is not posted anywhere... save the archives of a yahoo group which I am now considering deleting those posts. I'd forgotten it was even still there until this. Also, i had credited that part to her in the ANs.
The thing of this part of it is... this author proved it by showing me part of a review that someone posted on my fic where they mention the similarity. Now, this is a review that had lots of other things in it that REALLY upset me at the time. That is perhaps why I don't remember that part of it. It was a review I felt was truthful, but overly harsh. I don't know how I feel about this other author having it.
Though I was believed when I said none of it had been done with intent. That relieves me a bit. But the shock of this hasn't worn off yet. I still don't feel well... and now I am officially late to work.
