Why do people who hardly read books think they can be authors?

[nilesobek]

24. It would be awesome to be able to inspire someone.

Have you ever read "Gulag Archipelago?" In that book there is a scene where a Soviet politician has a rally. At the end of the rally the crowd begins thunderous applause. This applause is enthusiastic and goes on for ten, twenty, thirty minutes. Pretty soon, the crowd realizes that no one wants to be the first to stop applauding, out of fear. People start dropping from exhaustion and cardiac events, then finally, a guy stops applauding and slowly, the applause ends. Then they haul away the guy who stopped the applauding.

The only point to this is that the Author invites people to use this and other things in his book for story ideas. So I used it in one of my stories, an adaptation from that.

So if someone likes the idea of a schizophrenic housewife story, I could hardly accuse anyone of stealing it, as a matter of fact, I would be honored.