I need to go on record here for a moment. I need to say that Harvey the Hippo burst forth from my brain sometime in the early 90s. I wrote a couple of stories with him as one of the main characters, and a little while back, another story started to brew. But let me say again, that he has been in my head for ages. Ages. AGES.
So here I am, 82 pages and almost 25,000 words into my Harvey the Hippo story, and what do I find? This.
Which makes me ask, should I continue with my story? And if I do, should I change Harvey the Hippo to Kevin the Kangaroo or something like it? In my mind, I can't. This story is about L and Harvey, not about Kevin. But I do wonder if, should my story ever get published, will someone bring up the similarities to Fama's idea? To be fair, her manuscript is not published yet, so I best not worry too much. I don't even think our plots are anywhere near similar.
By the way, Tim says to check out her bio. In another universe, that could be me.
So here I am, 82 pages and almost 25,000 words into my Harvey the Hippo story, and what do I find? This.
Which makes me ask, should I continue with my story? And if I do, should I change Harvey the Hippo to Kevin the Kangaroo or something like it? In my mind, I can't. This story is about L and Harvey, not about Kevin. But I do wonder if, should my story ever get published, will someone bring up the similarities to Fama's idea? To be fair, her manuscript is not published yet, so I best not worry too much. I don't even think our plots are anywhere near similar.
By the way, Tim says to check out her bio. In another universe, that could be me.
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