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{{quote|"Don't copy, improve".|[[Tropers/Fallen Legend|Fallen Legend]]}}
 
{{quote|"...No man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."|[[CSC. LewisS. (Creator)Lewis|CS Lewis]]}}
 
One of the biggest obstacles for creators of fictional works is originality. [[Follow the Leader|Many works, despite being made by different people, are very similar or even almost identical]] and [[Its the Same So It Sucks|some people don't like it]], because they only try to replicate past success with minimal differences, and because they are often unable to create new ideas by themselves.
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The first paradox is that it is impossible to create anything truly "new". In other words it is impossible to create something from nothing. Every fictional work ([[Ur Example|with a few exceptions]]) is based on previous works. In fact all works use "elements" from previous works to make something new.
 
[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table:Periodic table|Think of the periodic table]]. Everything that exists is made from that finite number of elements. And yet the variety of unique biological life-forms and inorganic substances is virtually infinite. The source of all fiction is [[Real Life]] and the very first fictional works took their elements of [[Real Life]]; all "new" works are simply derived from those original works.
 
For instance, taking one popular element of fiction, dragons are apparently "made from nothing" given that they don't exist. However they are in fact a mixture of different kinds of reptiles that together made something "new". These new combinations are mixed again to create even more combinations like a "chain-reaction”. For example:
 
#First the [[Sit ComSitcom]] ''[[Bewitched (TV)|Bewitched]]'' inspired both the creation of another show ''[[I Dream of Jeannie (TV)|I Dream of Jeannie]]'' and the [[Magical Girl]] and [[Magical Girlfriend]] genres.<ref>''Bewitched'' was actually inspired by the film ''[[Bell Book And Candle]]'' (1958), which was markedly similar to ''[[I Married A Witch]]'' (1942). See what we mean?</ref>
#Then the [[Magical Girl]] genre coupled with [[Sentai|the sentai genre]] inspired [[Naoko Takeuchi]] to create ''[[Sailor Moon]]''.
#Finally ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' redefined the [[Magical Girl]] genre and created the [[Magical Girl Warrior]] genre.
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