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mainer

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9. Very common. It's something "in the ether"

Reply to Tobin S. (Original post)

Sat Jun 2, 2012, 01:39 PM

Jun 2012

A good friend of mine works in Hollywood evaluating scripts, and she said that in the course of a single week, she received scripts from two different parts of the country in which a woman's dead husband comes back as a dog and tries to woo her back.

I've also heard from editors who say they get almost identical stories within a few weeks of each other, and the writers don't know each other.

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Has this ever happened to you? [View all] Tobin S. Dec 2011 OP

More proof that watching TV is bad for you. n/t Scuba Dec 2011 #1

The twighlight series onlyadream Jan 2012 #2

More than once. Chan790 Jan 2012 #3

Not that, but whenever I write a story SheilaT Jan 2012 #4

Too bad it was going good instead of well. Things may have turned out differently. Just teasing. valerief Jan 2012 #5

I wrote "The Thing" when I was 15 theAntiRand Jan 2012 #6

Musician. It's happened many times. WriteWrong Jun 2012 #7

Yes it has. Fearless Jun 2012 #8

Very common. It's something "in the ether" mainer Jun 2012 #9

The exact opposite happened to me. Baitball Blogger Jul 2012 #10