Prose and Predjudice

In my efforts to write original prose and sentences about things, I have come up with a slam dunk of a basketball-based metaphor for describing my story.  It's so good, it's a steal.  Did you notice the subtle use of the basketball-based metaphor?  If you are an aspiring person that writes words good in sentences and paragraph form, it would be a pleasant idea to review that previous sentence.  But really my latest book is not derivative per "se" but it's based on the setting and character traits of an existing collection of words and sentences but I've taken these characters, changed their names and placed them into new situations.  Therefore it's not derivative, but an altogether new story based on similar characters with different names.  It makes sense for authors to do this because it saves time in developing new characters, and also using existing characters with different names helps the readers feel more familiar with the characters and plotlines.  Many authors have been very successful using this method: Stephanie Myers, Jeff Goldblum, Tom Clancy, Suzanne Collins, Colm Meaney, The Rowling Twins JK Rowling and NK Stouffer, Jimmer Fredette and of course James Patterson.  These authors should be congratulated for helping us as readers more thoroughly enjoy their books by using derivative characters, settings and plots.  This allows us to get books faster and read their words more gooder.