Adding to a storyline you've finished.

[Hypoxia]

Frankly, it can be tempting even for the writer to ask "but what happened to them next?"

I was there a few hours ago. I re-read some of my old stories that have just been faved or commented. I looked at The Temptation of Felice and realized that it's open-ended and could stand at least a couple of sequels from different POVs; I added my own comment to that effect. But will I ever get down to *writing* them? I have too many unfinished ideas floating around...

 

[Kantarii]

I was there a few hours ago. I re-read some of my old stories that have just been faved or commented. I looked at The Temptation of Felice and realized that it's open-ended and could stand at least a couple of sequels from different POVs; I added my own comment to that effect. But will I ever get down to *writing* them? I have too many unfinished ideas floating around...

I'll probably update and revise "My Brother's Ghost" before I undertake a new storyline, but first things first - I gotta finish "A Slut's Triangle".

 

[DwellerDark]

I think that even if you ended your story with all characters dying in a horrible fiery inferno, there would be people asking for a sequel. Some corpse-on-corpse action.

 

[Hypoxia]

I think that even if you ended your story with all characters dying in a horrible fiery inferno, there would be people asking for a sequel. Some corpse-on-corpse action.

Or follow them through an afterlife. How do they navigate eternity, purgatory, nihility, spirituality? Maybe they can be stoner ghosts as in Ghost of a Chance. Or reincarnate them as sentient animals or aliens. Or, just as they're about to die, impotent time-traveling futurians snatch them from doom for sex slavery and forced breeding. (Idea based on John Varley's Millennium.) Or follow them into an alternate universe where they almost died but not quite. Or the victims' surviving associates emote thoughts, memories, and fucks of the victims. Hey, there's always a way to pad-out a storyline.