These are the people you love to hate, and writers everywhere would love to get their claws on these copypasters, especially when they see their own hard-written work having an author’s name other than their own.
You can impressed with someone else’s work. Jeez, you can even have it framed and adore it, hanging on your bedroom wall next to Adam Lambert’s Pic singing Mad World with Simon Cowell artfully photoshopped standing and doing that ovation while he was singing those glass breaking falsettos. Then maybe, you’d have that epiphany to write something just like it and do some research and wordsmithing on your own.
You can even copy the idea, the gist, the pattern, the structure, the philosophy, egad, even the font and formatting. But to teleport every single dang word from it’s rightful place to that abominable place under your plagiaristic ancestor’s name? It must’ve taken superhuman gall to do that and thinking you can’t get caught, but what will they say about you in the afterlife? That you’ve got Xerox for brains?
And how about the anguish you cause others? The stolen earnings, the lost prestige, those book signings that you’ve pulled from under their noses and you just flash that Alec Baldwin smile while you rub elbows with the rich and famous adulating you for those words not having any umbilical cord with yez, all usurped in the name of greed and ego-tripping.
Like being a liar implied is not enough, you’re preventing your MIND from being a MAKER! You’re denying yourself the joy of literary creation! How would you share the solidarity with us writers and poets who, with frustration and dissatisfaction notwithstanding, rise to the heights of ecstasy seeing a piece of their structured and ordered thought published and appreciated by others? You’re going to fall into a quagmire of stealth and covetousness that will preclude all creativity your mind is made for.
This is your last warning, mate. Stop being a copycat and make your original line. Do it, or I’ll whip your !@#*%! myself!
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Hey, this is just an essay, okay, don’t get carried away by the spicy emotions, lol.
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you said very well what a lot of us are thinking — thanks
Welcome! Someone has to censure these copypasters once in a while, lol.
Exactly!
Word!
hi tom,
i think we have all felt this – seen our work splogged on the internet – given someone else’s name and helpless to anything about it. these are vultures and have no brains to speak of, if you ask me. just a thirst for something they can never make on their own.
sarah
We can beat them but never join them [smiles], you take care!
Hey Phil, this is impassioned! ive been here and just as angry
… but heres the thing, an original is always immediately recognized, being someone else invariably fails in the long term, you have been you your whole life, you can beat em with experience any day
… the internet is the ideal place for heroes of plagiarism, i often wonder why i write here, but then, the reach out factor too is fantastic,
and also, no one kicks a dead dog, its a compliment, every time
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Well said, Misty! They have to live with the fear that someday they’ll be discovered, hehe, they won’t sleep well at night, methinks. Anyway, we’ll write, we’ll write, and we’re right!
t-this happened to me and i reported them to blogger. i had to fax them something and they took care of it almost within a week…i haven’t seen anything else lately….it’s piss poor for sure and cowardly….go get ‘em, and when you find ‘em i’ll help you kick their arse…kim
I’d be happy to, Kimmie Dearie! We’ll be the first blog tagteam that will whoop their sorry arses, lol. I am also glad you were able to take care of their tresspass on your part, well done!
Hey dad.. It’s been a while, right??? Hehehe..
Strong choice of words, very strong.. Beware copycats because this article will rip you off…
Missed you, Daughter! Hope you’re fine where you’re at. You take care, okay? See you.