January 8, 2009 | In: News
Sometimes writers get confused…?
Turns out best-selling authors aren’t immune to “accidentally” plagiarizing the work of others.
Neal Donald Walsch found this out the hard way last month when, in a blog post on the website Beliefnet.com, he reportedly plagiarized an essay originally written by Candy Chand:
“Mr. Walsch’s story was nearly identical to an essay by a writer named Candy Chand, which was originally published 10 years ago in Clarity, a spiritual magazine, and has been circulating on the Web ever since. Mr. Walsch now says he made a mistake in believing the story was something that had actually come from his personal experience.” – New York Times
Internalizing something you’ve read to the point that you think it actually happened to you is no mean feat, I’d say, but it’s really nothing to laugh at.
The post was removed and Walsch is no longer a blogger at Beliefnet.com.
