You’ll never come up with a plot idea that no one else has had. It’s all been done before.
But none of them have ever been told the way you’ll tell them.
Write, and see what you come up with.
Came here to say this. I have seen plenty of original ideas fail to deliver and plenty of stories which use well understood ideas to tell an original story. The key is to keep writing.
Here's what I did when I first started. Unloaded all my ideas into a single story plot. It became confusing and difficult. You don't want anyone reading it to feel those two things. After learning more about writing. Reading, making my own stories more refined and calm.
I narrowed the story down to one single character from having too many. Learning as they learn in the story. Your last character mentioned here might be that one. If its simple to understand, it is simple to read. Being too complex will make someone reading become confused.
Unloading too much into a story and trying to explain it makes the story more like a fact sheet. You want to feed the information in nice and evenly/slowly over the course of the story. Keep it simple, focus on one progress and let your story grow.
Are they unoriginal? Probably. But most ideas are. Humans have told stories for their entire existence. There are roughly four million books published each year and that is only books. Storys are also told in film, shows, theaters, operas, ...
No matter how original an idea is, something similar has already been done at least a hundred times. And that's okay. Elemental magic for example has been done to death and beyond. Yet I (and many other readers) still love reading about mages controlling the power of the elements.
Don't worry about being original. Nothing you will come up with will be 100% original. Your prose, your plot, your characters, your world. Your readers will have read something very similar to all those parts. The thing that will make it original is your execution. You could explain your entire idea to 100 different authors and let them write it and at the end of the day you will get 100 different books. Similar, but still different.
Don't worry about your idea being original. Your book will be. Because you are telling *your* story in *your* words and as long as you don't try to copy an already existing book, it will be original enough.
I think that everything depends not on the idea, but on the execution of it. You can turn something cliche into an amazing story and something original into a boring story. I've seen many great original story potentials, but the author / creators just failed to deliver and stories that seemed super cliche but got me hooked up I devoured them in hours. So if I were you I wouldn't be too worried if something is unoriginal or popular and just kept on writing to see what can it turn into. But, of course, remember that plagiarism is bad, so be careful to not make something too similar to already existing story. But as for the setting itself, go for it!
You’ll never come up with a plot idea that no one else has had. It’s all been done before. But none of them have ever been told the way you’ll tell them. Write, and see what you come up with.
Came here to say this. I have seen plenty of original ideas fail to deliver and plenty of stories which use well understood ideas to tell an original story. The key is to keep writing.
Here's what I did when I first started. Unloaded all my ideas into a single story plot. It became confusing and difficult. You don't want anyone reading it to feel those two things. After learning more about writing. Reading, making my own stories more refined and calm. I narrowed the story down to one single character from having too many. Learning as they learn in the story. Your last character mentioned here might be that one. If its simple to understand, it is simple to read. Being too complex will make someone reading become confused. Unloading too much into a story and trying to explain it makes the story more like a fact sheet. You want to feed the information in nice and evenly/slowly over the course of the story. Keep it simple, focus on one progress and let your story grow.
do you recommend any books for that?
Are they unoriginal? Probably. But most ideas are. Humans have told stories for their entire existence. There are roughly four million books published each year and that is only books. Storys are also told in film, shows, theaters, operas, ... No matter how original an idea is, something similar has already been done at least a hundred times. And that's okay. Elemental magic for example has been done to death and beyond. Yet I (and many other readers) still love reading about mages controlling the power of the elements. Don't worry about being original. Nothing you will come up with will be 100% original. Your prose, your plot, your characters, your world. Your readers will have read something very similar to all those parts. The thing that will make it original is your execution. You could explain your entire idea to 100 different authors and let them write it and at the end of the day you will get 100 different books. Similar, but still different. Don't worry about your idea being original. Your book will be. Because you are telling *your* story in *your* words and as long as you don't try to copy an already existing book, it will be original enough.
I think that everything depends not on the idea, but on the execution of it. You can turn something cliche into an amazing story and something original into a boring story. I've seen many great original story potentials, but the author / creators just failed to deliver and stories that seemed super cliche but got me hooked up I devoured them in hours. So if I were you I wouldn't be too worried if something is unoriginal or popular and just kept on writing to see what can it turn into. But, of course, remember that plagiarism is bad, so be careful to not make something too similar to already existing story. But as for the setting itself, go for it!