Okay, this author's note is more of a rant/backstory about Anubis: Trip to America and it's plot.
I had originally published this story back February of 2012, a few weeks after season 2 premiered in the U.S. At the time, there weren't very many stories, or good ones, about Nina and America. But there was one story that stuck out a lot. It was called "Never Judge a Book by Its Cover." I had discovered it right around the end of December 2011. I don't believe it's on FF anymore, but basically the story was about The Anubis going to a performing art (I think) summer school in New York. They had stayed at house that reminded them a lot of Anubis and stayed with some other students. A guy had showed them around and took them to this stadium where all the kids hang out and party since the schools don't allow them to. At this party, they had seen a girl dancing and grinding against a guy and later founf out it was Nina. I don't remember the reason, but the Anubis gang decided to pretend they were other people and go by different names so Nina didn't know it was them. I don't remember all the details but later Nina discovers its them and there's a bunch of other stuff. This story is what inspired me to write Anubis: Trip to America.
But if you HAD read the story before it was deleted and read mine, you would know that despite the fact that I had gotten the idea for this story from "Never Judge a Book..." the stories are completely different. I had completely taken an idea and made it my own, different, unique version. And I went a completely different direction than the author of that story. How I incoperated Eddie was different, how Nina acted is slightly different, etc.
The reason I'm telling you this is so you guys understand that I know what it's like to read a great story and love the plot or an idea and want to make your own version of it. I'm actually doing that with another story I'm writing. But there's a difference from taking a simple idea and taking the plot.
Summer of 2012 was the summer I was meant to do a marathon for my stories. But things came up and my mom had brain surgery. I only ended up posting one chapter for this story throughout the entire summer. That same summer, there was an explosion of stories with the same plot as this. And you want to know I how I know they had taken the idea from me or from someone who took the idea from me, the freaking plot. It was all the same. The Anubis gang goes to America (mostly LA) for one month to compare how American and English schools are different. Hmmm... I wonder where I've heard that before?
I'm seriously getting tired of this. And you know what, it's even really about the fact that people are OBVIOUSLY taking my plot, it's the fact that they don't give me the credit or ask for my permission to see if I'm okay with it. It makes me feel disrespected as an author. Here I am trying to make up really original story plots when other people are taking the idea and pretty much claiming it as their own. I'm not saying that I don't take ideas from other stories or books or TV shows or movies, but I try to twist it and make it my own so then it's not too cliche.
This is really making me want to stop writing this story an if this keeps continuing, I will. But I don't want to punish my readers because of what a few people are doing. Basically, all I'm asking is for you to PM me and ASK if I'm okay with you taking my basic plot and if you not going to that, at least say your story was inspired by me.
~HOAluver13