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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/36721
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By far not all has been written. Sure, there is a limited amount of _patterns_, but there is an infinite amount of stories to use them for and all the stories are new variations on the patterns.

What motivated me was a simple problem:  
I'm looking since years for books in the style of David Weber's Honorverse, which is a series I enjoy despite some of the flaws (Mary Sue Protagonist, Deus Ex Machinas, ...). I've read dozens of books that have been suggested to me and none of them were actually similar. Sure, they were military sci-fi, but they all were too different in style and scope. One morning I thought to myself, well, if no one else is writing something in the style I like, I guess I'll have to do it myself.

I'm trying writing, because the stories I want to read _haven't_ been done before. I want a story that combines political intrigue, grand strategy, a war where people on neither side are actually evil, and, not the least, big fleets shooting each other in a manner approaching hard sci-fi but not too hard. I also don't want the Mary Sue Characters and Deus Ex Machinas from Weber. No one else has written that, despite the thousands of sci-fi books that have already been written, which is - to me - proof enough that not everything has been written yet, there are still plenty of stories left to tell.

I'm currently more in a writers block because I discovered that I'm actually an awful writer, though for that there are already plenty of tips on this SE that I'll eventually follow :)

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