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Is it okay if your creative for belonging is based on a historical event?
 
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u get marks for originality and creativity...
u could make reference or allude to a historical event( ie. holocaust), but i wouldn't explicitly base my whole piece around it.
 
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Okay so lets say as an example a Jewish person's experience during holocaust will be a bad idea?
 
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leesh95 said:
Okay so lets say as an example a Jewish person's experience during holocaust will be a bad idea?
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considering i could guess that it was gonna be about the holocaust
i'd say nope
it's culturally sensitive and unoriginal...
imagine if ur marker is jewish lol
 
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Nope my piece is certainly not about the holocaust. Its something completely different but thanks for your answer.
 
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Yes, it's completely fine to base your story off a historic event.
 
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Immortalp00n said:
considering i could guess that it was gonna be about the holocaust
i'd say nope
it's culturally sensitive and unoriginal...
imagine if ur marker is jewish lol
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Not if he does it well. All he needs to do is take that concept of the holocaust and expand it into a deep meaningful story. And it doesn't matter if the marker is jewish, as long as the story is not extremely explicit or offensive, the marker must mark it to it's highest quality.
 
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It would be great idea, these sort of things are called 'adaptations' and their perfectly acceptable. After all, almost all stories bar science fiction/fantasy are based on past events and ideas...
 
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I want to come out from reading your creative story with a different perception of the historical event than I did when I started.
 
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