How does one keep from writing plagiarism? Every time I begin to write something, my mind drifts into someone's elses words or so. One day I made up a real good character and had this character do his dialogue bit, then one day I was just so happen to be glancing in a book by an author and saw those exact words. So how can that be explained? Remember when Alex Haley wrote his book, and how he suddenly realized that someone else had the same format? Joseph