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Originally Posted by DuskyRose
Not to mention the millions and millions of fanfic stories out there.
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If that's your thing. I almost never read fanfic; not because I'm snobbish and only read tradpubs - not at all, I read lots of self-published stuff. But for me to want to read anything it must usually be an original story with original characters. 'Original' is a relative term, of course. Very little is truly original with thousands of years of writing history, and I don't mind overused plots, tropes or character types. But I don't want to read a story that explicitly uses other authors' world and characters, except in very few cases where the original author has wished their world to be shared by others. It's not a complaint from a moral or ethical standpoint, just a personal preference. It doesn't matter to me whether the original work is still in copyright or the author has been dead for hundreds of years; I don't read any Sherlock Holmes or Shakespeare fanfic either (does Shakespeare fanfic even exist?).
I've made an exception a few times and read stuff that can be classified as fanfic, but that's very rare for me.
This is not meant to be disparaging to fanfic, and I'm not saying fanfic shouldn't exist. I'm well aware lots of people love both to read and write it. It's just a matter of personal taste. There are other genres I'm not interested in and almost never read. Everyone has their likes and dislikes, and for me fanfic falls in the latter category.