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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 5112765" data-attributes="member: 18182">Umm, yes!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And as Mouse, Mr Kemp, and Mr Lowder pointed out, writing to get paid is not a fundamental flaw of shared world fiction.  The plain facts of the matter is that there are writers who do shared fiction that write to get paid, there are writers of shared fiction who write because they love their labor, and there are writers of shared fiction who write because they love AND they want to get paid!  And the EXACT same thing can be said of writers who do not write shared fiction at all.The problem lies where folks unfairly assume that shared world fiction has a higher percentage of either A) crappy writers, or B) writers who only write to get paid (or both!).  When I was younger, I read a LOT of standard fantasy fiction (non-shared) that was total crap, and that is what actually pushed me towards my personal preference for D&D shared world fiction.  It's not all I read, but I read all of it.  My bias is opposite of those who distrust shared world fiction!  But, just like them, I think I need to recognize my bias and branch out a bit!</blockquote>