West, page 2503
Interesting point. But yes, most authors are driven by money making, no matter how banal and uninteresting their craft is.
XD that does indeed imply the author played on easy!
Gun, page 2503
Hm, interesting point, I have also noticed that in FanFiction.net, though those stories tend to be successful, or at least way more successful than my stories. For example, in my Mass Effect fanfic, I do take note of star systems and location of a Mass Relay, but the story is not about Shepard, but goes off in a different direction entirely. It references several features in-game, staying truthful to the source material, yet creating a new adventure at the same time.
I also did a similar formula in my Dark Souls fanfic: create new adventures, but reuse older themes to override aspects of the new adventure, while staying true to the original material (however, there are a few exceptions here and there, to add colour to the characters). For example, the new curse I added becomes disabled by the presence of the Deep. So, the Deep becomes a force capable of defeating the new curse, a curse of flesh and machinery, because I could not resist not having Spirry’s multiple forms in a Dark Souls fanfic.
My Legend of Zelda fanfics follow the same formula: create a new adventure, but keeping multiple themes and features faithful to the source material.
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