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[owlectomy]

P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast Plagiarize?

Guys? Guys? Did they not teach you in school to put things in your own words?

It's one thing to shake my head helplessly at grade-school kids copying and pasting a huge chunk of Wikipedia into a Word file, knowing that they're going to get caught. Published authors should know better.

And as a question of good writing, if your character talks like an encyclopedia, and isn't Spencer Reid, you're probably doing it wrong.

Comments

[fiction-theory.livejournal.com]

Ugh, how disgusting and even worse, they were too lazy even to reword their plagiarism that well.

I really hope somebody brings a lawsuit for that crap.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

if your character talks like an encyclopedia, and isn't Spencer Reid, you're probably doing it wrong

Oddly, it's that, more than the brazen lifting from a universally accessible source, that really steams me. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things-- have you no ear??