Originality- Does it Exist???

My thoughts are similar; everything HAS been done before, but if somehow you bring a slightly different slant to the topic or reach a different audience with your words... you have done something that is originally you. People do not give up reading new books and poems because it has been done before... they wish to enjoy reading again and again, each time with a different setting or viewpoint or outcome...etc. The same is true for the writer...do not give up doing that which gives you so much pleasure just because it has been written about before... your unique life and circumstances contribute to what is uniquely your writing.

Brava!!! I totally agree with you, too, Laurie! Subtle nuance of all sorts may take one thing and alter it in literally a million differnt ways- and then you have subjectivity- why, no one sees the same thing the same way anyways, so go at it with gusto. Why should any writer assume any subject or genre is off limits because it's overdone, done better or better off avoided. says who? I say break all the rules with brilliance and creativity and make them love every minute of it!...Catherine