Fan fiction is mostly terrible, but it appears frequently enough to be good enough to compete for the new rare commodity, reader's attention. (and also a Sherl

Fan fiction is mostly terrible, but it appears frequently enough to be good enough to compete for the new rare commodity, reader's attention. (and also a Sherlock Holmes/Lovecraft crossover fanfic won the 2004 Hugo short story, but most fanfic writers don't write as well as Neil Gaiman) The main problem with writing for money these days is that there's no money anywhere in the chain.