• theherk@lemmy.world
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    There is an anecdote that I can’t currently find, nor am I certain I have the author and story right.

    But there was a person who picked up Fifty Shades of Grey while his wife was reading it and claimed he could write better in spite of not being an author; I think they were a programmer. Anyway she challenged hisband Dennis E. Taylor who then wrote the Bobiverse.

    So… maybe you just need that first one to really get going.

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      Also a reminder that Fifty Shades of Grey started out as a Twilight fanfic titled “Master of the Universe”. Which honestly adds a lot of context to the characters, you can basically just substitute names and it works.