As a wannabe writer, one of the most valuable assets I can have is an idea. From an idea can spring characters, a plot, that masterpiece work that lifts us into the ranks of a JK Rowling or Stephen King or Henry David Thoreau. I seek them out all the time.
I've had the good fortune and the torture to have found what could be just such an idea. A retelling of a classic story in open domain. I don't see any tellings along this line. I'm excited, itching to go...
And completely convinced that I don't have the talent to pull it off.
Don't get me wrong. I'm going to try. I can't not try. But I'm scared into trembles that this great, terrific, earth-shattering idea isn't meant to be mine. OR, this isn't the fantastic twist on a classic tale that my head tells me it is.
Inspiration can be a bitch of a muse, sometimes. But I have to try.
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