Be the next..........

E, I'm riled this morning. Can't put my finger on the exact reason but that twitter email about 'being the next J.K Rowling', may have had something to do with it.

I hope the people entering the competition realise that they could never be the next J.K Rowling, no matter how good their writing is, because there can't be another J.K Rowling. You can't be her, you won't be her unless maybe you decided to do a complete rip off of the HP series and just plagiarise to buggery.

Man I hate things that just name drop to attract people in.

It's like any dystopian future book, even if it was written and published before the Hunger Games, can only ever be 'The next Hunger Games.' No, we've had the next Hunger Games, it was called Catching Fire and then there was another one called Mokingjay. I don't think we need anymore.

A said, 'Yes but it's a similar-ish concept.' True. So maybe they should put that on the front of the book instead: A similar-ish concept to the Hunger Games. All dystopian futures are going to have something in common, at the very least that they are dystopian and in the future, and for the most part shitty for some of the people within them. But comparing them all to one, is just bloody annoying.

I would like to clarify, right now, that I love the Harry Potter books and The Hunger Games, but I don't want every book series in the future to be one or the other. Just because you like a thing once, doesn't mean you necessarily want to read another fifty of the same. So, I guess what I'm trying to say, in my slightly ticked off way, is just, write something that is yours and be compared to yourself and don't try and be the next anything, except maybe the next super successful debut author. That would be nice.

Okay, maybe the rant is over for now. Maybe......

Rants

Side note: Dystopian came up as a spelling mistake and when I clicked on options to change it to, it gave me these:

dustpan
dustpans
Dustin
dustbin
dustman