Why does nobody post here anymore?
Anyway, I'm doubleposting because I need to vent.
My cousin is driving me bonkers. We talk all the time on facebook and USUALLY we get along, but sometimes we fight like sisters and I want to string her up by her toes, gagged, in a closet with my rope.
This is one such time.
We usually goof around and make smalltalk about ideas we have and stuff. As a writer I like ideas, ideas are good, people give them to me all the time. My cousin sometimes sends me ideas that she has and sometimes I file them away for future use. Why? BECAUSE I'M A WRITER. ITS WHAT I DO. So I remembered us discussing a character idea a while back and decided to expand on it and make my own. She was the one who brought up the idea, but she never said anything about wanting it for her own exclusive use, so I figured I might as well make a character (with a great deal of expansion and splashes of my style added) from the idea. I made the mistake of TELLING my cousin this after I had done it and she flipped out, claiming that it was HER idea and how DARE I use it when she had never SAID that she wanted it FOR HER OWN EXCLUSIVE USE. For the love of pie (MPLF) it wasn't a completely UNIQUE idea even, its just one that I hadn't thought of for awhile and therefore had never expanded. Her comment brought it to the forefront of my mind and I decided to act upon the creative juices while they were there. IT WOULDN'T EVEN HAVE BEEN A CHARACTER IN MY BOOKS OR ANYTHING, IT WAS JUST FOR MY OWN AMUSEMENT.
So we yelled back and forth at each other for like ten minutes (over facebook chat) with her pretty much saying that I had no right to do this and I had DONE IT BEFORE which I have NO recollection of. I don't even remember SAYING that I may use an idea that she broached.
And then there's the fact that she's not even serious about writing like I am. She sometimes writes short stories (which don't usually go for very long and- honestly- have a LOT of issues) so maybe she'll get something published sometime BUT ITS NOT LIKE SHE'S A PUBLISHED AUTHOR AND I PURPOSEFULLY HARDCORE STOLE HER IDEA LIKE CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI AND THE END OF INHERITANCE DID TO LOTR.
And THEN she's like, "Oh, no, its fine, just never do it again." ARRGGHH.
I'm not speaking to her. If there's an idea I really want to keep I either don't tell anyone or SAY ITS MY IDEA.
*long frustrated rant over*