>Start writing a fantasy series this summer with a pretty specific set up
>Write 50k words
>Start thinking it's actually pretty good and wondering whether it might be enough to get an agent interested
>Bored browsing TV Tropes one day
>Find out there's another series with literally the exact same premise although other than that pretty dissimilar
What do lads?
>>8455630
Be specific.
>>8455630
Keep going, anon. You'll be fine.
>>8455635
I don't want to give away the plot, but lets just say that it's the equivalent of writing a book about the destruction of a super powerful magical ring.
>>8455643
seems fine, if you'd change it to a crown.
>>8455643
make it a watch
>>8455696
Hey man I ain't writing literary fiction over here, allegories are above me.
>>8455643
Make it so the Eagles take the main character to [unspecified place to destroy the ring] this time, it'll be a best seller.