The great thing about being a reader is that you discover that there are a lot of people that think like you. It is a relief to know that there are others who have the same thoughts and you are not alone in the world.

This is also a very bad thing for me as a writer. Writing is something painful for me. It takes me awhile to be satisfied with what I’ve written and I will reread and edit numerous times before I am happy with it. Inevitably when I think I have written something particularly brilliant I immediately read someone who saying exactly the same thing except maybe better and certainly faster.

This discovery is disappointing for me because I think I have this original idea and I have put it all down so the world can see it and then I learn that the world has already seen it and has know about it for some time. Somebody else got to it first.

It has all been said before which has actually been said before too. Damn.