Question. Can writers continue an abandoned story?

[HaralLuhhan]

You have been able to contact the author.
The fact they haven't responded could be for many reasons.
No response cannot be considered permission....
No response could mean they can't be bothered dealing with your request.
No response, is in the description... NO....

Cagivagurl

I'm confused, this conversation ended as we moved on. Not sure why you are responding like this.

 

[Cagivagurl]

I feel passionately about it.
I noticed it pop back up and couldn't help respond...
Apologies if it upsets you.
Just my thoughts.

Cagivagurl

 

[HaralLuhhan]

I feel passionately about it.
I noticed it pop back up and couldn't help respond...
Apologies if it upsets you.
Just my thoughts.

Cagivagurl

No worries, not offended. But I did edit the first post with a comment that the original topic was over. I was hoping that would prevent people from continuing it unnecessarily. I'd close it and open a new thread but I guess theres no way to close it.

Currently I'm just talking about getting my attempt at a story edited.

 

[allenknott3]

EDIT: Hi the OP post has been answered I have a related question on page 2 I'm about to post. Just adding this so people dont continue trying to answer this.

Hi, I'm new here and was wondering the etiquette of referring to and adding to existing stories.

I found a story I liked. 8 parts, entertaining read. It cut short of the (ahem) climax however.

The author abandoned it and the site apparently, 10 years ago.

So I was thinking it might be fun to try to add an ending chapter or two to it.

Author: https://www.literotica.com/authors/wordsinthedust/works/stories

And story is "Unintended Lolita".

Some things about the story:
- It's in the Incest/taboo section
- Despite the odd title, it depicts no underage characters (naturally). No idea what the author was thinking with the title.
- It deals with the budding relationship between a father and daughter. Really, the mother is also heavily involved.
- The story was excellent (imo) but the author used a lot of sudden and unmarked pov and scene changes that seemed jarring.
- It is a nice 'happy' story. No non consent, abuse, manipulation and so on.
- This 'world' oddly has no hangups about this type of relationship, at least not that the author acknowledged.

I figured I could do one or more of the following with it:

1. Clean up and repost each existing chapter under my account, while naturally crediting the original author, maybe giving it new life. As well as continuing it if I can.
2. Attempt to continue the story, while crediting and linking to the original one for reference
3. Mind my own business and write my own dang story
4. Go back to lurking and forget the idea, noob
5. Delete my account and never darken this site again!

Some 'challenges' for me:
I'm not an author. Never wrote anything substantial, never mind erotica. I figure I could follow the original writers lead for this exercise at least.
I'd make a better editor than an author probably.

I don't have a great imagination. I can think about story ideas but getting them on paper (or computer etc, you know what I mean) is another thing.

That all said, I've read a lot of stories on this site and I think I can do better than several of them. lol

You could continue writing as a private story or create something similar. That is what I thought about doing, writing a similar story, just changing the part I dislike from the original but giving credit. It is not so much about changing the ideas; it is just doing them differently.