Everything is a Remix
I feel that the videos detailing how things are created, recycled, and changed were quite sad. The idea that nothing is original and that everything is just an alteration or a reuse of a preexisting idea left me with feelings that the stories I've written in my free time are just copies and spurred off ideas from things I have seen in the past. When writing in my free time, I always try my best to write stories that are interesting and unique. The videos showed me that I am, in fact, just another one of countless genre writers. It left me with the feeling that nothing that I have written in the past was my own original creativity. Despite this, it has not hurt my will to continue writing. It has strengthened it. I will not just give up on writing because I no longer feel original. I will continue writing in effort to distance myself from the mass of other science fiction genre writers out there. Aside from that, the videos were very informative. They went into history as well as the legal and social aspects of how "Everything is a Remix". Instead of just spewing information, the videos actually drew me in and allowed me to link together the remixes in my world to the material they were copied from.
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