Now, I’ve already confessed the rhetorical shortcomings of FF.net—its ugliness, and the lack of persuasive language inherent to the craft of fiction writing. More importantly, since both it and my blog were written by the same person, we can rule out the factor of a superior hand writing one set of the entries (and thereby attracting a wider clientele). Also remember that while WoW has a ludicrous 9 million active subscribers at present, Shaman King, the subject of all of my fan fiction pieces, has, in English-speaking countries at least, a fan base of (generously) a couple hundred thousand. By all reckoning, taking into account not only sheer numbers but also mass appeal and, not unimportantly, the presence and magnitude of rhetorical appeals, the WoW blog should have proven more popular by a landslide.
However, the numbers do not lie. All that remains is the salient question, why?
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