Good fiction generates narrative spillover and surplus via unexpected symbolism far beyond author intent. Create more meaning than you capture, ideally <5%. Cc @doriantaylor ... alchemists fallacy, economics of pricelessness edition.
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I hope you boldly go to where you can live long and prosper.
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Exactly
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Missing from this chart is people who get married in Klingon garb AND raise their children to be bilingual in Klingon.
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thinking about this a little more: consider the Dune universe—Herbert made a universe big enough for his son to pick up the franchise but I dunno you never hear about Dune fanfic (although I'm sure there's tons)
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One theory: stories that have lots of stock characters (tropes + local color) are good for fanfic. If your characters are too ambiguous or unpredictable, hard to reuse. Series are natural for this because characters usually don't change at all and have only tropey depth.
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