forum Is this plot interesting or has it been done too much?

Started June 05, 2018 by @The Palindrome

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So I want to start writing a book and my idea so far is head vs heart. So basically there are people who can control emotions and there are people who can control thoughts, and they're at war. It's going to weigh the power that emotion and thought has over people.There's obviously going to be more than that but that's the skeleton of the story. I'm wondering if this sounds interesting or if it's been done too much? Like the whole "people have powers and they're at war" stereotype? Because I don't want it to be like Red Queen (just an example) where there's a ton of powers and there's one "special girl." I won't have it like that. But I'm wondering if just the basic mind controlling thing has been done before or if it's not interesting? Thank you for your input!! I really don't want to make an unoriginal book and your opinions will help!

I don't think this is unoriginal at all! Congrats on thinking of such a cool idea. But I do think you should be careful with the mind controlling, and you might wanna consider paying more attention to the emotional controllers.
Also, how do ordinary humans fit into this? Do they fear and want to hunt down these controllers (like in the X-Men franchise)? Are they subservient to the controllers?
And don't forget to focus on the positive aspects of mind/emotional control and how it might be used for good.
Good luck to you and happy writing.

Thank you!! This will definitely help me, those are very good questions to build off of :)