Tuesday, November 24, 2009

"The Salesman"

We must always be careful with our applications of other people's
ideas. For most of us with the Internet in our pockets we are without
excuse if we choose a band name that has already been taken. I've been
through twelve taken band names and pretty soon I'll just be myself.
When other people have great ideas they haven't used, and when using
those ideas themselves would be extremely beneficial to them, "right
up their alley" so to speak, and they encourage you to use that idea
with all manner of energies and creative impetus that fits their frame
strangely; unfamiliarly, irregularly- so unexpected considering who they are... They probably saw someone do it somewhere.
Think about it. Research before adopting someone else's genius plan,
unless you trust them completely and their track record is flawless.
I have once again been saved from unintentional plagiarism by watching
a documentary that had inspired somebody else to share a good, already used idea with me. God definitely doesn't inspire that kind of illness.

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