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 #WritersCoffeeClub 7: Have you ever seen a TV show or movie so close to one of your ideas you wished you'd written it?

Sort of, and sort of not. As a kid I was a voracious reader at the local library, which had a lot of fantasy and sci fi anthologies. A couple of decades later, I had the idea for The Night Fair.

Then watched Stardust and went, oh, wait, this seems a bit like my idea? I suspect the opening chapter was in one of the anthologies.

Still wrote the story anyway.