Comic problems.

[FluffyWolfAdopts]

Hi Ive recently written a whole story for another manga of mine.However Im worried.After browsing smack jeeves.I found a comic whitch had a simlair plot...
What can i do?I spent so much time writing my story and it turns out some one allready has one up (with not many pages however) with the same plot?!

What can I do?I want to be able to use that story.But I dont want people to say I copied that person.. any advice?

(Ive written the story from begenning to end)

Please exucse my mistakes here beacuse of my bad english :l

[Hjels]

Is it very specifically similar, in that it follows the same story beats and tackles the same themes, or is it merely similar in that it follows the same story archetype?

[FluffyWolfAdopts]

Is it very specifically similar, in that it follows the same story beats and tackles the same themes, or is it merely similar in that it follows the same story archetype?

Well it has the same theme.
Basicly at the start it follows the same theme.But then it goes off with my own thing.

Heres a example (not the actual thing) - Kids first day at school.Finds out theres a vampire?Goes does some adventure
The story i found that was simlair after I wrote mine - Kids first day at school.Finds out theres a vampire?Trys to study when theres a vampire around.

Okay that was just a example that had nothing to do with mine.But im explaining the simlarites.And at the start people will probaly might complain beacuse of the simlarites :<

[eishiya]

Sounds like you just have similar premises, which really doesn't matter. Don't worry about it. It's unlikely that many of your readers will have read the other comic, and even if they do, they might not notice the similarities unless they're very specific.

By theme, I think Hjels meant not the general premise, but the underlying deeper theme - for example, is one story about acceptance, while the other is about friendship? If so, then you definitely have nothing to worry about because the themes are different. If they're similar, then people might notice, but it's still not a problem as long as you're not ripping off any specifics from the other story.

And by beats, Hjels means scenes in your story where something important (to the characters/story) happens, and the order this happens in. Here's an example of a beat structure:

Spoiler! :

the protagonist decides to follow the vampire
has a scuffle with him
tries to go back to a normal life
discovers a victim
decides to go after the vampire once and for all
finds vampire fighting another vampire
fails to decide whether to help one or kill both
almost dies
decides to help the "good" vampire kill the bad vampire
(resolution)

If both stories have similar beats and in roughly the same order, then they're likely to come off as similar.

There is nothing new under the sun and I'm sure that for every story you write, there are already five others that have very similar stories. That's okay. What makes your story unique is what you put into it. Make it yours; do what you want to do, and do it well.

[corruption]

One thing you could do is give the maker of the other comic a message telling about this, so they will realize you are not ripping off the starting idea.

[EromCX]

You your story looks like somebody else's then it's not very original...try again :p

[H0lyhandgrenade]

Vampires and first days at school are both pretty popular topics so it's not suprising that a comic featuring both has popped up elsewhere. If those are the only two similarities, and this other comic isn't extremely popular, I don't think you'll get many accusations so don't worry about it. Just put that one out of your mind and focus on how a vampire story by YOU goes.

[JoKeRcologne]

I subscribe pretty much to what eishiya and Holy did say.

You your story looks like somebody else's then it's not very original...try again :p

very useful ...

[FluffyWolfAdopts]

Um most of you people giving me advice didnt understand that I used the vampire thing as a example...
My actual story has nothing to do with vampires
Well thanks for the advice everyone.From reading and re editing my story it seems im comfortable with it now :> thanks for the advice everyone!

[eishiya]

I don't know if you're talking about my post or not, but I did understand that it was an example, and I used the same example to illustrate my point. I hope that came across.

It's good that you've come to a point where you're happy with your story :D Congrats!

[H0lyhandgrenade]

Ah xD I misread somehow and didn't see it was an example. But my point stays the same! And I'm glad you worked things out =)