Playing with words

Elizabeth Gilbert wrote a book on the creative process (Big Magic) and one of the chapters is about how one idea she'd had for a novel (about a botanist doing something specific) was something she researched and plotted out but never actually wrote... and then a few years later somebody else published a book with an eerily similar premise. This was proof to her that the idea found somebody else to nurture it and give it life. So you might be onto something! An adoption agency comm of sorts?