Beat me to it, Carol. I was just idly wandering through the Stopping Plagiarism site (excellent resource btw) and spotted it, too.
Here's her excuse:
(Anonymous) wrote:
Apr. 10th, 2009 05:47 am (UTC)
It's me, Shin-Kalel. Thank you for your email Spiralleds, and for the chance to explain myself.
I am sorry for having posted the work of others. I just wanted to start with existing stories so I would be able to make my own, and believe me, I have made a few of my own already thanks to those I published. I didn't know that publishing those would lead to chaos.
Again, my heartfelt apologies, and starting today, I will remove my account from FanFiction.net, never to go to that site, or any other site again, to post anything.
I'm sorry for my shortcomings, I humbly beg forgiveness from you and the authors.
Shin-Kalel
ETA: I've been trawling back through previous entries on the SP site and, honestly, it's worth taking a look at some of the excuses offered by plagiarists. Makes you shake your head and wonder what their parents and teachers taught them when they were growing up.
I like this one:
Well, thanks for telling me that I have writing ability, I guess. Honesty, it was my first story (or maybe not 'my' first story) and it is my last. I don't know the exact definition of 'plagiarism', and I certainly didn't mean for it to be a stolen story. I appreciate your time, and I would just like to let you know that I have no intention of writing any more fanfictions. If I do decide to in the future, I will make it completely my own. I appreciate your understanding, and I hope, as you said, that the "fandom" will forgive me. If you choose to put my name on a list of "known plagiarists", then could you send me the url? I have never seen one of these, and I would at least like to check it out. Of course, this is unneccessary due to the fact that I only wrote one story and I only planned on that one story.
Eeesh.
LabRat
