I usually get quite a lot of ideas for stories, but every time I want to develop them into a full fledged story, I get paranoid about how it might not be an original idea, and how it might be dismissed by people as a copy and not worth spending time on. Same thing happens with character names.
One solution to this would be to Google search the idea/terms, but then the further paranoia stems from this.
Do you guys feel like this when writing, or is it just me?
Answer
If it's original to you, it's original enough. Even if someone else coincidentally made something similar, you will still have your own twist on it enough that it will be yours entirely.
This is different from inventions, where the first person to conceive it is the person who gets credit for it. In writing, so long as you're not out-and-out copying from someone else, you're good to go.
Stop worrying so much and just write. Everything anyone could ever write is a copy of something, somewhere, that's already written. Just enjoy yourself and write for you.
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