/lit/ - Literature

>>20252383
The snippets I've read seem NPC normiecore squared. BUT I love how he did an end-run around the affirmative action crowd and got them screaming.

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>>20056790
We know what the big thing that changes the meta will be. It was actually foreshadowed with video games. It's gambling and paywalled content.
Look at all the video games that make truckloads off DLC, pay to win, lootboxes, gacha, and RNG drop rates. People will grind like crazy as long as there's a known chance they can get what they want. Writing is heading in that direction, I'm 100% convinced, and pic related is why. People fucking FLOODED this kickstarter in days at the chance of getting mystery books. It had nothing to do with Sanderson or anything he's ever written. It was always about the mystery and the gambling. What could it be? Don't you want to pay to find out? Even an ancient game like CS:GO still manages to have a huge and thriving cash community that pays for weapons obtained from lootboxes. Secret books by established authors will unload so much money into author pockets that it's insane no one has thought of it before.
Paywalled content we're already seeing success with Patreon. People will pay for premiums if they think they can get ahead or advance farther faster. Any p2w MMO is like this. If you can get a brand built for yourself, then you start doing lootbox mystery books on top of paywalled content, the $25M or whatever Sanderson made is just the tip of the iceberg.
You watch out these next few years. Shit is going to get super popular with contemporary authors, then everyone will be doing it.

>>20038458
>The ideas guys write nothing but soulless fantasy nobody over 18 takes seriously
You say that, but who is getting the bag at the end of the day? Who is making their mark on history?

>>20000591
Here's the man you're looking for. The very wealthy man.

What's your excuse /lit?