MONTHLY FOCUS | FICTION & POETRY SERIES— OCTOBER

Derivative Content: Stop Recycling Your Same-Old Stories

Avoid the sour taste of stale content and revive your content

Jerileewei
Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs
5 min readSep 26, 2024

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Black and white photo of an old typewriter with an unfinished page and cobwebs on an old desk.
Photo by Mike Hindle on Unsplash

As authors and poets, we all know sometimes the nightmare is all too real. We’ve probably all done it at one time or another, a lot of times simply because we didn’t know any better. We might as well fess up and admit that some of our best work (and some of our worst) have ended up on multiple platforms. We are sadly a guilty lot.

Years ago, I once was sentenced to Nightmare Court, not to be confused with Judge Harry T. Stone’s Night Court in Manhattan. The courtroom was decorated in classic excuses and indignation. The defendants, myself included, were a dubious crew of authors and poets. We were all charged with the felony heinous crime of Derivative Content.

Every defendant had all been caught red-handed, their digital fingerprints all over countless copy-and-paste word-for-word copies of their work, regurgitated like flyspeck vomit over various site platforms in desperate bids for attention and dollars.

I’m not plagiarizing, I’m recycling!

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Jerileewei
Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs

Writer, poet, T2 diabetic educator, master gardener, artist. Cultivating words, gardens, and health. Age is just a number, creativity knows no such limits.