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[Cyberpawz]

Take a look at what I added to my post. My last substantive post was to Slyc Willie, not to you--in fact I haven't read what you posted while I was composing to Slyc Willie's post at all. Several here said how they compose serials, and I posted how I compose mine--a method that completely obviates any need to tell readers at all about future installments. And I said any way anyone wanted to do it was legitimate. Can't get more open to what others want to do than that (other than tell me and other writers what we should do).

You know, I somehow don't believe you in when you said that it was stated towards Slyc Willie, and not to me, especially since you have a tendency to quote whoever you are responding to. Just call me a realist.

Especially since the difference between my post and Slyc Willie was seven minutes, and between yours and mine was 10. Unless you are a god awful typist and can't write more than 10 wpm then I say the comment you made was directed towards me.

So care to try that one again?

 

[sr71plt]

You know, I somehow don't believe you in when you said that it was stated towards Slyc Willie, and not to me, especially since you have a tendency to quote whoever you are responding to. Just call me a realist.

Especially since the difference between my post and Slyc Willie was seven minutes, and between yours and mine was 10. Unless you are a god awful typist and can't write more than 10 wpm then I say the comment you made was directed towards me.

So care to try that one again?

Given that I generally quote who I am responding to, and I didn't quote you . . .

And you were saying about not wanting to fight?

I was responding to Slyc Willie. If you don't choose to believe that, that is your problem. Of course, I'll certainly be more careful about quoting who I am respondng to in the future. Or maybe not. Who knows?

And my posting of what I do in regard to the topic being discussed and why--followed up with the statement that I think it's legitmate for any other writer to do it as they please is one I'll stand by.

I have no idea why that gives you heartburn. In fact I don't really know what the burr you have under your saddle is about at all.

But then, you just want to fight, obviously.

Night.

 

[slyc_willie]

You know, I somehow don't believe you in when you said that it was stated towards Slyc Willie, and not to me, especially since you have a tendency to quote whoever you are responding to. Just call me a realist.

Especially since the difference between my post and Slyc Willie was seven minutes, and between yours and mine was 10. Unless you are a god awful typist and can't write more than 10 wpm then I say the comment you made was directed towards me.

So care to try that one again?

I'm pretty sure he was responding to me. I sometimes take several minutes to respond to a post, especially if I am chatting with someone else. Not everyone devotes their time exclusively to Lit, you know.

sr71's response is exactly why I no longer write series in chapters unless I have written the entire thing. If I cannot finish the work before posting, there seems a good chance that I may never do so.

My recent series, "By The Numbers," is an example. I wrote the whole story as one file, and then chopped it up. Once it was done, I then posted the series.

I won't make the mistake of starting a series without seeing the end in sight again.

 

[Cyberpawz]

I'm pretty sure he was responding to me. I sometimes take several minutes to respond to a post, especially if I am chatting with someone else. Not everyone devotes their time exclusively to Lit, you know.

sr71's response is exactly why I no longer write series in chapters unless I have written the entire thing. If I cannot finish the work before posting, there seems a good chance that I may never do so.

My recent series, "By The Numbers," is an example. I wrote the whole story as one file, and then chopped it up. Once it was done, I then posted the series.

I won't make the mistake of starting a series without seeing the end in sight again.

Yes, I understand he may of been chatting with you, but like you, I also quote who I am talking to, and so does he on a limited format as well. Either way it is up for interpretation.

I don't spend my entire life in Lit either, I actually have my life, a job, and well as you have read, a whole lot more in front of me

As for how you do a story, it's smart, I like the idea, my problem with my stories is that sometimes I never know when they are going to end, it's an annoying habit with me, and I've yet to break it. I guess it's good as well cause it means I never run out of ideas

 

[EbonyFire77]

I have two stores at the moment that are unfinished, and obviously so. Now and then, I'll get an annonymous email or a PC that asks me if I will ever finish the series.

My honest reply is, "I don't know."

Certainly, I intended to finish the stories. But after the initial posting of the stories, I lost the 'umph' to follow through. One is an incest story, a subject with which I have lost interest in. Another is a sci-fi series, the first chapter of which I wrote late at night while admittedly drunk and submitted right away.

Granted, I could go back and finish both, but then comes another obligation to the readers: should I just write the thing, without the passion to do so, and end it? Or wait to see if, by chance, I may be inspired to really give the story a credible and meaningful next chapter?

Like Cyberpawz said, you gave an answer and that's all that really matters. If you don't know, you don't know. If your mind changes, that's what it eventually does or does not.

As for your stories, what I'd consider doing is going back and leaving a comment in the feedback section about whether or not you'll finish. I've seen people do that, it's the quickest and most direct way-- and if people don't like your answer, oh well as long as you gave an answer.

If you really want to just end the stories, and get it over with-- why not? I know that you may not have the passion you once did but keep in mind one was written while you were drunk so that wasn't exactly planned. The other one you've lost interest in, and that's understandable.

I can understand why someone finishes an entire story before submitting it-- with one of mine, I actually had both chapters finished before submitting it, but I didn't expect that everyone would be awaiting another chapter. I can see where my mistake was made, but what I can do to remedy that in the next (and last) chapter is make it very, VERY clear that it's the conclusion-- whether or not people like it. But I've made it clear that it's the end, and I guess that's all that matters. It's not like I'm leaving people in the dark.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Getting back to the original question, how can an author be expected to know whether there is a sequel or not when the story first goes up on the site? One could think that the beast was fed and put in its cage and then, usually at three a.m., your eyes pop open and . . . damn . . . the story is continuing right there in your head without your permission or even your cooperation. If people want more, that's really sweet. If I can accomodate, that's really cool. I do agree, though, that promising more and not delivering is rather sad.

 

[sr71plt]

Getting back to the original question, how can an author be expected to know whether there is a sequel or not when the story first goes up on the site? One could think that the beast was fed and put in its cage and then, usually at three a.m., your eyes pop open and . . . damn . . . the story is continuing right there in your head without your permission or even your cooperation. If people want more, that's really sweet. If I can accomodate, that's really cool. I do agree, though, that promising more and not delivering is rather sad.

There's that, yes.