@CitizenSamurai I got lucky by making my story the least marketable thing in the world, but I really do not want some Hollywood hack casing my story for ideas or something. I absolutely hate the idea of it.
I sort of hope they start adapting the bigger WP stories and they start bombing. No offense to the authors here, but it makes me feel like a fish in a barrel when they have literal algorithms looking for whatever they can get. I think they recently did a Hulu movie of that one story with a billion reads and the critics tore into it.
You're right about the remakes and sequels though. It's not as bad as it was in the early 2010s, but hoo boy, it's still as prevalent as ever. I think we're on the seventh Paranormal Activity movie at this point. I mean, for god's sake, they're remaking music now.
I think we should see this as a challenge, to write the riskiest, non-Hollywood stuff so we can earn those subpar film adaptations with hard work, instead of getting it from some desperate producer trying to get a third yacht.
Either way, I'm in no hurry to jump ship yet. This site still has its place, albeit an increasingly smaller place, considering my numbers here are only an eighth of what I've got on RR. I miss the old WP forums too...
I'm... still working on TKH2 and my other story. I'm sort of stuck between a billion little tasks that destroy my focus, and I end up giving myself a headache when I do work. Slow and steady, I suppose.
That, and a large series of coincidences involving the Cocteau Twins has me seriously concerned about my own mental health. You remember that Jim Carrey movie about the number 23? Something like that.
