Thread:Epzilon/@comment-5651818-20141217021625/@comment-1493741-20141217025108

That's the thing, man, you're getting too hung up on the originality of it. Its better to walk into this thing assuming someone has used the idea before, because that way it doesn't matter even if it turns out that no one has used it before. What you should be focusing on is your own interpretation of it. Power through Words / Words have Power is a concept in Bleach that is oft-discarded though Ichibe's been bringing it back in his own way, Ten's way is different from Ichibe's (Well, Kubo's rather), and as I said above, yours is likely to be different from his.

Its going to be a constant back-and-forth between the drawing board and... not much else, if all you do is come up with an idea and then stop the moment someone comes up with something that's not too different from it. Don't get worked up about being the special snowflake, get worked up about making it the most badass snowflake that you can in your own way.