I'm a plagiarist!!!

[raefinlay]

Found this at a listing of recent script sales:
http://www.scriptsales.com/DDScriptSales.htm

Title: A Spell for Chameleon
Log Line: Bink, a young man without magical powers lives on the planet Xanth, where everyone has some sort of powers. Bink will be exiled unless he can manifest his own magical skills.
Writer: Tim McCanlies
Agent: Endeavor and mngr. Lindsay Williams of The Gotham Group
Buyer: Warner Bros. Pictures
Price: n/a
Genre: Fantasy/Science-Fiction
Logged: 12/3/04
More: To be adapted from Piers Anthony’s classic book. David Benioff and Radiant Productions' Wolfgang Petersen and Diana Rathbun will produce. Samuel Dickerman will executive produce. Rights to book acquired in May 2004.


Oh dear, oh dear. The idea of everyone having some kind of magical power...the social ramifications of someone NOT having magic in a world where magic is as natural as a nose...IT'S ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE! And worse, it's coming out in a movie!!

Has anyone read this book? Is it anything like The Unmagicked?

*hears flushing sounds*
*watches little pieces of WIP swirl into the plumbing*
*outlines new novel*

Comments

[tryslora]

I've read it, long ago, and it's nothing like yours. *smiles* This is a part of Piers Anthony's "punny" Xanth novels. They're humor and not entirely serious at all.

The idea of someone being the odd-man out has been done before, true. The only one without in a society where having "it" is the norm. I'm sure I can come up with others like psionic societies and null-magic peoples, and stuff like that (although the brain ain't working that well just now). It's all what you do with it. And I want to read the rest of The Unmagicked so don't flush it.

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

Unless Unmagicked secretly sucks and is full of awful puns, I think you're okay.

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

*slaps rae friendly-like*

Don't worry... even if you were baking with the same ingredients as someone else, I'm sure your cake would taste different. And it's the subtle differences that make or break a story -- there's only so many plots in the world.

*awaits next chapter, but puts siran wrap over the toilet just in case*

[greenlight711.livejournal.com]

Um, read a trilogy in the early 90s from Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman called The Dark Sword Trilogy that had to do with exactly this. A society that all had magic and the protag didn't. He disguised it by doing slight of hand. Can't remember the rest of the story though.

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

Oh, phew!! Yeah, no puns in Unmagicked. Erm...that I know of. Thx Deb!

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

Naw, it flagrantly sucks. I guess I'm ok then. That's a relief. :P

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

Ow.

Erm...I haven't gotten a tell-tale that ch. 3 is back up yet. It was ripped so cruelly from my grasp...

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

Wow. I sure am one for coming up with original ideas, eh? I guess I should read more. *sigh*

[dark-geisha.livejournal.com]

The Xanth novels? God, those things sucked. But overall I'm not one for punny suckiness.

True, it may not be an original idea but really, there are no original ideas. It's the execution and spin that give similar ideas different flavors. Carry on!

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

*goes quiet and gets to work*

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

Thx Vern!!!!!!!!111oneoneeleven

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

Read it. It wasn't all that. And nothing like The Unmagicked. Don't flush it, dude. Your story rocks my frog socks (and my toe socks). So keep at it.

[aaron-mag.livejournal.com]

Dude...I remember that story. Don't worry Rae. That one sucked. It was so boring!!! Agree Heather? I read the first one and dropped it. Ugh...

And he had the dark sword as well...

And they had 'catalysts' that granted life to magic people. Totally different than yours...

[greenlight711.livejournal.com]

Yes, it WAS boring! No worries, be happy, Rae! I lurve Unmagicked. Phooey on Weis and Hickman and that totally unoriginal guy who stole your story and sold it to Warner Bros. :S

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

Dude(s)! You guys are the bestest. *hugs friends*

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

Frog socks? FROG SOCKS?!?!?

*goes shopping*

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

I have all the socks dude. All of them.

I just finished chapter two on thieves! Yay! Bored? Wanna read? :D :D :D

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

On a sock note, my friend D has two kids... you know this, I think. One of the little girls, the older one, has to look at my socks every time I'm over there. I showed her the kitty socks once and promised her puppies next time I was over. It was a few weeks before we got over there again, but I put on my puppy socks, even though I didn't expect her to remember.

She did. She waited the whole time without asking, but as Jeff and I were leaving, she stopped me. I thought she wanted a hug. Instead, she bent down, pulled my pant legs up, and laughed. Then she gave me a hug.