One More Thing…

I’m really sick and tired of one thing, and before I finish up my surprise and find the time to work more on it, I have to say this and vent a little. You know, get a few things straight.

Someone keeps stealing my ideas.

Well, to be precise, not stealing exactly. But copying. If I have a layout, she has to change hers to something that looks a lot like mine, to the point where people would even comment and say, “I like the new Clompish-like layout!”

Honestly, this is one of those things that makes me a bit sluggish with updating. I’m actually afraid that if I come up with something really original, that this person will take it. And then it won’t be unique to me anymore, and I’ll have to keep changing things.

It kills me inside, especially when I went to this person’s website and their past layouts page. One of their layouts that looked a lot like mine had a description that made me want to hurt someone. This isn’t word for word, but it was something along the lines of “this layout had no inspiration or anything” and talked about how it was completely hers.

I remember my friend Georgia had this issue a while ago, and it was a contributor to a fairly long hiatus that she went on. I felt angry about the whole situation with her, and now it just seems like déjà vu with me.

Sure, I’m honored that someone thinks my things are good enough to steal, or be “inspired” from. But that doesn’t mean I enjoy it. I work hard to be as unique as I can, and when someone compromises that, I want to scream.

I won’t say who this person is or go about and tell bad things about them—besides, they know who they are. Heck, I bet they’re reading this right now—as they seem to look at everything on Clompish and try to copy it.

All I have to say is:
“Stop. Taking. My. Ideas. And stop taking my work. Stop taking everything. Is it so hard to be original on your own?”

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