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- Sep 3, 2014
I think part of it is autism.
No, actual autism.
They literally don't get that novels are of a certain length, or a range of lengths, for a real reason. First is dramatic pacing and all that, but second is that it is out of some degree of respect for the reader's time, and that writing is essentially a social act intended to communicate. Writing a "novel" millions of words long misses the point of a novel.
Even ridiculously lengthy works like the Gor series respect the general idea of a novel being something you can read in a reasonable length of time, and while there edgy and retarded as all shit, it's a series of throwaway novels with a cult following. (And one of the first of the "modern" autist cult followings of degenerates who try to live based on some freakish ethos taken from the novels, but that's another story.)
Writing at that length and calling the result a novel is, as you point out, completely self-serving.
Or so I'd think if there weren't, apparently, actually a following for this insane shit.
I call any following an accidental side effect honestly, since the standards of most people who read fanfiction don't exist. No matter how garbage the product is on FF.net, Fimfiction, or any other webzone that produces it, there will be people that will masturbate furiously, even if the author couldn't give the slightest shit about what others think.
I mean really, it takes a certain level of incompetence and arrogance (Black, Dobbo) to NOT have a following on the internet, so long as you produce content at least on occasion.