Author's Note Number Two
Dear Everyone~
This is Margaret. On Lauren's request, I am writing the second author's note. We have read the reactions to the first author's note, and we would like to swear once again that we did not steal this story from anybody. It was in the works for several months before we even posted it, and it was posted a fairly long time ago. We would like someone, if they can, to please tell us the name and/or author of the story that is so similar on stars-hollow.net. We would like to look into this further. We have searched the site, but as the stories have no summaries, it's hard to find a story. Please let us know. If you can tell us the name of the story, we'll read it, try to talk to the author, and give you a further update. If people truly want us to stop writing our story and delete it, we will, but we hope that we will be able to leave it here, because it has taken great effort to get where we are, and we'd like to finish what we started. Also, take this into consideration? How similar are these two stories? Because there's a difference between copying or similarity and plagiarism. Plagiarism is copying someone else's writing, word for word, or almost so, and saying that it is your work, without giving that person credit. Copying can sometimes happen when a person reads someone's story and they like it so much they use the same general plot and characters, but try to go their own way, and do not copy that person's writing word for word. This is not meant as an insult, but purely as an honor. And unintentional similarity between two stories means one thing-and one thing only: Great minds think alike! Once again, we'd like to remind you that we'd never even dream of ripping off someone else's work intentionally.
~Margaret (and Lauren)
Dear Everyone~
This is Margaret. On Lauren's request, I am writing the second author's note. We have read the reactions to the first author's note, and we would like to swear once again that we did not steal this story from anybody. It was in the works for several months before we even posted it, and it was posted a fairly long time ago. We would like someone, if they can, to please tell us the name and/or author of the story that is so similar on stars-hollow.net. We would like to look into this further. We have searched the site, but as the stories have no summaries, it's hard to find a story. Please let us know. If you can tell us the name of the story, we'll read it, try to talk to the author, and give you a further update. If people truly want us to stop writing our story and delete it, we will, but we hope that we will be able to leave it here, because it has taken great effort to get where we are, and we'd like to finish what we started. Also, take this into consideration? How similar are these two stories? Because there's a difference between copying or similarity and plagiarism. Plagiarism is copying someone else's writing, word for word, or almost so, and saying that it is your work, without giving that person credit. Copying can sometimes happen when a person reads someone's story and they like it so much they use the same general plot and characters, but try to go their own way, and do not copy that person's writing word for word. This is not meant as an insult, but purely as an honor. And unintentional similarity between two stories means one thing-and one thing only: Great minds think alike! Once again, we'd like to remind you that we'd never even dream of ripping off someone else's work intentionally.
~Margaret (and Lauren)