You know that little voice in the back of authors' heads that say things like, "you're not good enough" or "don't even try"? Well, my voice is telling me that my series has already been done before. I know AW probably gets threads started like this all the time, but I just need to to know. I'm so stressed that this has been done before.
Does this sound familiar to you?
My short stories are about an inventor, Thomas, who is afraid to love, because he doesn't want to break anyone's heart and his 12-year old assistant, Barney who lives with him. The basically go on all sorts of adventures using Thomas' crazy, impossible inventions. Thomas is best described as smart, but scared to get close. Barney wants to fit in with the kids in his class and wants Thomas to know how much he cares for him. (Barney can also turn into a alligator-creature by will and sometimes under extreme anger or stress.)
By the way, I want to call the series Thomas and Barney but I'm afraid it'll stir up images of cartoon trains and a purple dinosaur.
Does this sound familiar to you?
My short stories are about an inventor, Thomas, who is afraid to love, because he doesn't want to break anyone's heart and his 12-year old assistant, Barney who lives with him. The basically go on all sorts of adventures using Thomas' crazy, impossible inventions. Thomas is best described as smart, but scared to get close. Barney wants to fit in with the kids in his class and wants Thomas to know how much he cares for him. (Barney can also turn into a alligator-creature by will and sometimes under extreme anger or stress.)
By the way, I want to call the series Thomas and Barney but I'm afraid it'll stir up images of cartoon trains and a purple dinosaur.
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