Urgh! *thrashes futiley*

[BiscuitHammer]

I get back from a perfectly lovely afternoon of playing Battletech, and I have at least one comment demanding an 18th chapter to a story that clearly concluded in chapter 17 and then continued under a different name.

Add to that three PMs demanding I continue said story. Of course, they're anon PMs, so I can't use crayons to draw them a road map to the new story, even though the title should be a dead giveaway.

Lazy readers! Lazy, lazy rabbit-killers! *swats them with a bat'leth*

I'm just wonking, but I figure AH is that place to vent/grunt/exclaim about synaptically-deficient readers and their constant, baby bird-like squawking that you regurgitate free smut stories down their thirsty throats. Don't make them work by engaging neurons to look for a related title.

Granted, not all readers are lazy prats, but aside from having the Mummenshanz mime troupe come out onstage and act it out for them, I'm kinda at a loss. I guess I'm stuck loudly announcing follow-ups at the end of stories. Kinda ruins any surprise I had planned, tho.

Wonk wonk wonk. This was not the denouement I was hoping for at the end of a day of hard-fought nerding.

Lazy porn tyranids... *grumps*

 

[Hypoxia]

Take two Thorazines and call me next week.

Trust me, I was almost in medical school.

 

[Handley_Page]

Take two Thorazines and call me next week.

Trust me, I was almost in medical school.

I'd recommend a couple of Asprin.

 

[lovecraft68]

I didn't know PM's could be sent anon? or did you mean comments/feedback?

Readers will always want more. No matter how long the series is or how tightly you wrap it up. TX Rad mentions a series where he killed off the characters and they still wanted it to continue

This is measuring stick I use to know if a writer is writing the story they want to write and being true to themselves or if they're more interested in what the readers want than they want.

If the story is done in the writers mind, its done. If they cave to the readers and force themselves to keep going then to me they're not really being creative anymore. Lazy writers for the lazy readers...why think of something new when you can keep feeding the herd the same thing.

I think I just described today's Hollywood which is nothing but remakes, reboots and sequels.

 

[lovecraft68]

I don't completely agree that it is a lack of creativity, to continue a story. Sometimes stories really start flowering after the first (few) chapter(s).

It also depends, in my opinion, whether you are talking about Ch. XXX, or about a different story using the same characters.

Readers' comments may convince an author to continue a story they may have had doubts about, giving him/her the final push to do what they already thought of.

My judgement is based not on the author could continue but he was on the fence and reader demand pushed him to keep going, but that the author writes the end and in his mind is 100% done and only goes back to it to make the readers happy

I have seen series that go on forever and because of it the later chapters are nowhere near as good as the first few and you can see the author has lost passion/direction/ideas and its forced, but they're in the comments field yapping away with the readers who still keep saying more!

Recurring characters in other scenarios isn't the same. Its just putting them in different places and situations and not writing a 100 chapter continuous opus

 

[BitchyatTimes]

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[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

I always second guess myself when I've ended a story and get requests for it to continue.
For my Serendipity series I had requests and I thought, what the heck, so I started a part 2 and got a few chapters in, and it just sits there. I can't be bothered to finish it.

BUT I am lucky and I woke up to a nice email this morning with a very nice review to my latest series. And it wasn't even anonymous. I hope the person doesn't mind me sharing, and I won't post their name.

'When I find a story I like, I have a tendency to get so wrapped up in a story that will think about it constantly. This is a erotica site, to me that means that there should be sex constantly! But, I'm so into the story I don't even care that there has practically been no sex until now. I just want more of the story! Good writing I hope if if they run to hard times, things will stay good for them. thank you'

That made me very happy to know at a erotic story website my story can survive without sex in it.
And to the person who sent the feedback, I submitted the next chapter a couple days ago so hopefully it will be posted tomorrow or the next day.

 

[BiscuitHammer]

I always second guess myself when I've ended a story and get requests for it to continue.

What makes me nutso is that I had every intention of continuing the story, but in a different context and under a different title. The original stories were 'Alex & Alexa'. After seventeen chapters, that arc ended, and it was continued under the name 'Mike & Karen'.

Seriously, all the demanderps had to do was go to my damn page and see my list. If they read Alex & Alexa, then they can't help but know who Mike and Karen are.

But apparently different words are too much work.

Yes, yes, I'm happy people liked/loved Alex & Alexa, it's my most popular story, yadda yadda. But c'mon, guys. If you can get to this site at all, then I'm concluding you have opposable thumbs and can work this out.

I LIKE compliments and positive feedback. Demands to continue a story I have already continued, not so much. Then it just feels like I'm flinging poo at monkeys. :/

 

[SimonDoom]

I think with every story I've written that some readers liked, at least one was certain that it should keep going.

I gave in once and wrote a follow up to a story I had intended as a standalone story. I thought it worked fine, but some people wanted it to keep going, and I was ready to move on. I haven't added to it.

I like to end my stories on a somewhat incomplete note -- a relationship that's just gotten started, leaving the reader to wonder what will happen next. Some readers take this as a suggestion, or more, that the story should continue. But I think it's better to leave readers wanting a bit more than to leave them shouting at you that you should have ended it long before.

But some readers want to see that a story beaten into the ground. I'd much rather move on and try something new.

 

[Gentleman_G]

I like to end my stories on a somewhat incomplete note -- a relationship that's just gotten started, leaving the reader to wonder what will happen next.

As long as you indicate that it's the end of your story, not their story and that they will live out their lives without you looking over their shoulder, I think that's fine. I'm all for writers who actually conclude a story, regardless of whether there could be told more about them.

I mean, what else can you do? Write about them until they've died of old age? Might be a nice epilogue if it fits your story, but come on.

Which reminds me ... part I of my story actually ends on a somewhat sourly complete note, which will infuriate people if they think it actually ends. I wonder if I should not tell anyone that I intend to post a part II and see what people throw at me

 

[lovecraft68]

As long as you indicate that it's the end of your story, not their story and that they will live out their lives without you looking over their shoulder, I think that's fine. I'm all for writers who actually conclude a story, regardless of whether there could be told more about them.

I mean, what else can you do? Write about them until they've died of old age? Might be a nice epilogue if it fits your story, but come on.

Which reminds me ... part I of my story actually ends on a somewhat sourly complete note, which will infuriate people if they think it actually ends. I wonder if I should not tell anyone that I intend to post a part II and see what people throw at me

The reason I get a lot of 'more' is my style of writing. IN I/T I don't generally write them stroky. I think its a huge line to cross and write the story with conflict, build up, tension...we can't do this, but I want too...

Then of course the line is crossed hot incest sex committed and...that's it.

For me the breaking of the ice is the focal point of the story and that's it. IN that category -and others-all further chapters are is more sex "chapter three, Joe and Mom do it in the pool! Chapter four mom let's Joe have her ass!"

The same for other categories I guess, once I've gotten the characters together for whatever the kink is, its okay, next...

I describe myself as a thrill of the kill writer...okay they're together now....next!