>>4879865This. Execution matters more than ideas. Good writers can come up with great ideas for stories very easily, so they don’t have any need for ideas from people who’ve never written before and think can’t see that their “super awesome idea for a story” hasn’t already been done a million times before.
It’s not a matter of who does it first, it’s who does it first. If the idea genuinely IS good and you just suck at writing, then someone who can execute better than you will still just come along, take it, change some things, execute it better, and see way ore success than you did.
If you’re THAT protective about your ideas, then maybe don’t ever make anything and keep it all to yourself. Then you never run the risk of anyone stealing anything.
Also, for the record, all stories sound amazing when it’s just a bunch of jumbled scenes and setpieces in your head. It’s when you put it all on paper that it really counts. Usually the story you have in your head, and the story you write down wind up being two VERY different things. With the latter being REALLY shit. Especially with newbies writers. Writing is a skillset, you aren’t born with it, you gotta develop it just like art.