Bad idea, or not?

[EmilyMiller]

So I have you guys to blame / thank for Coleoidphilia.

I was thinking of doing Coleoidphilia 2, maybe for Geek Pride.

It wouldn’t just be the same stuff repackaged, I have some new ideas. However, I doubt I could replicate the same standard.

So:

1. What an amazing idea, Em, you are so talented that I’m sure you can pull it off (and Coleoidphilia 2 as well)
2. It will just be a boring rehash of Coleoidphilia and tarnish the earlier work
3. I really couldn’t care less, I have navel lint to catalog

Em

 

[cuppatea]

I’m going with option one.

 

[PandemicReader8]

Housekeeping: My first submission to Lit is still pending, but I've been lurking, reading and studying Lit for years. In addition, I've published elsewhere since 2018. All that means my opinion and three bucks still won't pay for a fru-fru latte. That said...

Unplanned sequels are rough. When we aren't planning a second story, we tend to - but don't always - use our best material all at once.

If you think you have a solid story, write it, run it passed a beta reader, maybe three, and see what they think. Let that input - and hiw much you love what you've written - guide your choice.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I’m going with option one.

I led the witness, right?

Em

 

[SimonDoom]

Do it if you have a fun new idea that you would enjoy writing. Don't do it just because the story did well or because some fans want more.

 

[cuppatea]

I led the witness, right?

Em

If you have the idea and it’s fully fleshed out, then there’s little room for doubt.

Oh, and I plead redhead.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Housekeeping: My first submission to Lit is still pending, but I've been lurking, reading and studying Lit for years. In addition, I've published elsewhere since 2018. All that means my opinion and three bucks still won't pay for a fru-fru latte. That said...

Unplanned sequels are rough. When we aren't planning a second story, we tend to - but don't always - use our best material all at once.

If you think you have a solid story, write it, run it passed a beta reader, maybe three, and see what they think. Let that input - and hiw much you love what you've written - guide your choice.

My worry is - as I have said here - that I threw the kitchen sink at Coleoidphilia. So I get that I can’t just do more of the same, I have to have some new concepts, while still riffing on the old, I have a few ideas.

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

Do it if you have a fun new idea that you would enjoy writing. Don't do it just because the story did well or because some fans want more.

I have a few ideas. It’s just I had a dozen for Coleoidphilia.

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

Oh, and I plead redhead.

Is that like pleading the fifth?

Em

 

[PandemicReader8]

My worry is - as I have said here - that I threw the kitchen sink at Coleoidphilia. So I get that I can’t just do more of the same, I have to have some new concepts, while still riffing on the old, I have a few ideas.

Em

You won't know until you try.

 

[cuppatea]

Is that like pleading the fifth?

Em

I thought that’s what I said, I must have been distracted.

 

[alohadave]

My worry is - as I have said here - that I threw the kitchen sink at Coleoidphilia. So I get that I can’t just do more of the same, I have to have some new concepts, while still riffing on the old, I have a few ideas.

Em

There's always a way to add to a story. I mean look at Soaps and comics. Characters come back from the dead all the time.

Even so, you can keep the universe and find a story that is related to or references the first without being a sequel or continuation of it.

 

[EmilyMiller]

There's always a way to add to a story. I mean look at Soaps and comics. Characters come back from the dead all the time.

Even so, you can keep the universe and find a story that is related to or references the first without being a sequel or continuation of it.

That’s an idea as well. Though Ridley Scott might want his universe back .

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

You won't know until you try.

True

 

[PandemicReader8]

What of the disposition of the tentacles were different? What if the tentacles were submissive? Or virginal?

 

[TxRad]

What color tentacules goes with orange orangutan fur?

 

[EmilyMiller]

What color tentacules goes with orange orangutan fur?

Blue according to color theory, right?

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

What of the disposition of the tentacles were different? What if the tentacles were submissive? Or virginal?

I have some semi-formed ideas

 

[PandemicReader8]

Run with them!

My teacher/mentor once said that sometimes a story has to marinate alongside other ideas before its ready.

 

[jehoram]

So I have you guys to blame / thank for Coleoidphilia.

I was thinking of doing Coleoidphilia 2, maybe for Geek Pride.

It wouldn’t just be the same stuff repackaged, I have some new ideas. However, I doubt I could replicate the same standard.

So:

1. What an amazing idea, Em, you are so talented that I’m sure you can pull it off (and Coleoidphilia 2 as well)
2. It will just be a boring rehash of Coleoidphilia and tarnish the earlier work
3. I really couldn’t care less, I have navel lint to catalog

Em

For me, #3. But if that option weren't available, I'd go for #1.

The only way to know for sure is to write the story and see how it comes out.

I don't write sequels for the sake of writing sequels, but sometimes sequels demand to be written, so I write them.

I wrote "Ohana" as a standalone story. It was only after thinking about it that another story came to mind, set some sixty years after the first one, and featuring only one character from the original. It got pretty good response.

But, as Pandemic says, don't be in a rush to publish. If the story is going to be really different from the original, it needs time to develop on its own.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Run with them!

My teacher/mentor once said that sometimes a story has to marinate alongside other ideas before its ready.

I’ve got a Lit story stub which I am adding:

1. What if…?
2. Explore… further
3. New idea…

And a few snippets of writing.

I’ll do it if the above coalesces into anything and anabdon if not.

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

For me, #3. But if that option weren't available, I'd go for #1.

The only way to know for sure is to write the story and see how it comes out.

I don't write sequels for the sake of writing sequels, but sometimes sequels demand to be written, so I write them.

I wrote "Ohana" as a standalone story. It was only after thinking about it that another story came to mind, set some sixty years after the first one, and featuring only one character from the original. It got pretty good response.

But, as Pandemic says, don't be in a rush to publish. If the story is going to be really different from the original, it needs time to develop on its own.

#3 is a valid response, hun .

Em

 

[PandemicReader8]

The first meaningful commercial success I had came when three ideas got smashed into one.

 

[Rob_Royale]

You have time and talent. Plan it out, and then see where you are. If it's interesting and different enough for you, it will be for us too.

 

[EmilyMiller]

You have time and talent. Plan it out, and then see where you are. If it's interesting and different enough for you, it will be for us too.

Good advice.

Em