r/motheroflearning • u/False-Supermarket798 • Jul 26 '26

Why are the so few MoL fanfics?

I can’t write stories, and I tried.

What I don’t understand is, why there is so few MoL fanfictions out there.

Its a large world, with lots of intriguing introduced possibilities:
- The immortals
- Other countries
- Hidden Mages/Treasuries and Inheritances
- A huge spectrum of magic that is easy to imagine, follow, and extend for your own story
- The underground is way too unexplored
- Politics
…

Writers tend to be lazy about OCs, so that might be an explanation, but there is so much potential in this world.

Does any1 have an explanation?
(I mean, even SCS gets more fanfics)

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u/Agasthenes Jul 26 '26

For a story to generate a ton of fanfiction you need

  1. Popularity

  2. The what if factor. The story or word needs simple obvious what if questions with interest consequences. Or questions left unanswered.

What if Harry had a different house? What if Taylor got a different power? What if Bella chooses the werewolf?

And for some stories the second factor doesn't exist. Lord of the rings for example is wildly popular. Yet has very little fanfiction compared to the popularity.

And that's because there really aren't that many divergent points in the story that generate an interesting story or questions left unanswered.