Don't get me wrong, I love writing stories. I've been at it for as long as I can remember... but what if every novel in the world was burned down to ashes and every bit of written fiction online was wiped from the internet? Considering that anyone else could just up and start writing another story, would the world be any less without LotR, Harry Potter, Dune, The Dark Tower, Frankenstein and other such works? Is writing fiction ultimately an expendable form of art?