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RE: When You’re Passionate About Something, It’s Hard not to REPEAT Yourself!
On repetition: paraphrasing a dense text, for example, could even be super helpful. In fact, I made it a habit to go to the secondary sources if the primary text is too dense for me.
The writer's "voice" is important to me, irrespective of whether the topic has been repeated or not.
I feel OK as long as I'm not doing an outright plagiarism. ORIGINAL CONTENT is mere propaganda.
Conclusion: plagiarism-free content + interesting to one person or the other = my version of ORIGINAL CONTENT.
Yes, I agree that the writer's voice is very important... and possibly the most important aspect of a piece of prose. I know I sometimes find myself not finishing an article about a subject I even like, simply because the voice of the writer seems absent, or even irritating, in some way.
If you want to get strict about it, you could say that there are no original ideas — everything we create is basically "re-cooked." As long as the writing is my own and I didn't set out to copy someone else's work, I consider it non-plagiarized.