question(s)

Have you ever posted something and then go around to your favorite bloggers and find similar words or phrases or themes which makes you wonder “Did I read that here and then use it?” so you start checking the dates and times of the posts because you don’t want to look like a copy cat?

Have you ever saved a copy of Donald E. Westlake’s “The Spy in the Ointment” forget where you saved it, find it one day while looking for something else, give it to your sister who’s a bookaholic, then wish you had the book back again because you haven’t read it in nine years or so ask to borrow the book back “whenever you get around to it” say forget it I’m not waiting, go online and buy a used library hardcover copy of it, start reading it as soon as you get it and realize that either you write a lot like Donald E. Westlake or he writes an awful lot like you?