[throwawaaarrgh]

Writing fantasy should require what you write to be good, or at least entertaining, to sell; right? But bad fiction sells almost as well as good. You just need to follow a formula to put together the rudiments of something functional, and then find somebody who's good at selling. Slap a good cover on it, buy a good blurb, and get it in the grocery store.

Nothing personal, but you are who I'm talking about when I say nerds who just like to build toys in the sandbox. I don't think you intend on improving technology, or making a better product, as much as chasing that tickled feeling of sitting and writing. It's just amazing to me that people still get paid very well for effectively writing a copy of a copy of a book, while most fiction writers barely scrape by. You'd think the people paying us would just use the last book and not pay you to write it again, or demand it be better. But we're all fine with photocopied monotony.