It's All in the Way You Look at It

Are you frustrated because there are too many books out there that have already said what you were going to say? Told the story you had hoped to tell? Set on stage characters too similar to the ones who have been trolling about in your mind? Are you about to shove your partially finished or newly begun manuscript in the bottom of your desk because you don't want to be accused of imitating another writer's story?

Don't be in such a hurry to give up. It seems to me that one of the least...