That just means there are more sellouts
But seriously, as someone who basically writes weird ass vaguely literary fiction using other people's characters, I don't want to have to be a marketer instead of a writer. So I never write original shit (on SV). If I'm going to sell out, I want to get paid for it
Original Quests have risen quite rapidly as a proportion of the average of all quests to 17.8% since when I reported the original
I'm still disappointed nobody has run with 'Dread Captain John Luck and his merry crew of pirates who are definitely not a fantasy ripoff of Star Trek,' after I pointed out how easy it was to take a well-written fanfic and convert it to an original work.
I feel like in today's society it's sort of impossible to have an idea that is completely original.And when derivative original work is competing directly with first order derivative work (fanfiction), then there's no points given for being original if it's more derivative than the fic, imo. I understand using tropes and story structure, but if I wanted to read Muv-Luv with a woobie or Harry Potter/Mahouka/LWA/The Magicians/Generic Isekai #35719 with the serial numbers filed off, I'd fucking read those works instead of the biters. If you're going to write original, fucking be original. Originality made Hedge Maze cool.
This is actually why I don't particularly like Worm; edgy, morally grey superheroes were played out in the 90s. The comics industry lampooned and pushed back against that mess while I was still in grade school. Kick-Ass and Soon, I Will Be Invincible do the first and second half better. And it still bites Evangelion for Cauldron (and the Endbringers, if you squint).
I would rather a writer tell a unique story with established properties than write hack work with their homegrown. I don't give a shit about your OCs, and your writing probably isn't good enough to make me care if you need to rely on quest gimmicks for Likes. I personally find fishing for Likes distasteful, but I've never been a very likable person
Now the quality pure original quest is a Holy Grail that very few have reached (OP being one of them), but there's always reading literary fiction (nobody reads literary fiction).
I also am uncomfortable with the condemnation of unoriginality. I think an important part of writing is that you are engaging with culture, and culture is basically made up of all the ideas that have already been thought of. To participate in a conversation, you naturally will need to echo back some of the words already being used in that conversation. (The 'words' of a story being things like tropes, plot points, character archetypes...) I think it's both normal and useful to encounter an existing story and want to do your own version where 90% is the same but the 10% that's different is the point you want to make to your audience, or your proposed fix of something you felt was wrong or misfocused about the original. Encountering a piece of writing that's really different from anything else you've read is disorienting, which is one of the main reasons postmodern fiction isn't popular.
*Sobs*I would rather a writer tell a unique story with established properties than write hack work with their homegrown. I don't give a shit about your OCs, and your writing probably isn't good enough to make me care if you need to rely on quest gimmicks for Likes. I personally find fishing for Likes distasteful, but I've never been a very likable person
Okay that I can agree with. My apologies I may have taken your statements a bit too literally.
When I'm struggling with stress and mental health issues and need a pick me up, I have a tendency to beg for likes.
We probably have had this conversation before. I honestly don't encounter derivative works where the author doesn't show enough nuance to make the work their own; I don't think it's a real problem, especially if you discount inexperienced teenagers who are still learning to write.
Raymond Chandler said:
It's highly situational. I tend to plan dozens of events and run them all simultaneously in the background when things get boring. At least one of them will show up on screen. Sometimes I have to rig it, but normally if I preplan where all these events are and leave tiny hooks, someone will pick up on one. Overplanning makes for a more alive world, in my opinion. Even if a lot of my viewers tend to complain that they feel they miss out on things.
I personally have uh, done that.
No... No it's not. See above post to Laurent.