Is it Ethical...

[deeteeZA]

I have just read a rather long story, yet it ends a bit in the air...

Is it ethical to write a follow up story, a "Part Two" perhaps, finishing off the original story???

(I am not an author, it's just that my mind is full of ideas for the characters in the original story which leaves too much just hanging.

PS- Be (reasonably) nice...

Thanks,

Dan

 

[chelleb]

I would PM the author of the original story and ask. They may be working on a part 2.

 

[CWatson]

Exactly what chelleb said. Some authors are, well, careful about their intellectual properties; others love to share and see what happens. Contact this author and ask them directly.

 

[Jack_Samuel]

I think you must always be respectful with someone else's work. its too presumptive to think that we know where they want to take it or even if they have finished.

 

[deeteeZA]

I would PM the author of the original story and ask. They may be working on a part 2.

Sorry, I should have added that the story is listed as posted by "Anonymous Author"

 

[Penelope Street]

Sorry, I should have added that the story is listed as posted by "Anonymous Author"

Well, that does change things a bit, doesn't it? Because that account exists specifically for authors who wish to remain truly anonymous, they probably don't wish to receive feedback or otherwise be contacted.

I assume by 'ends a bit in the air', you mean that certain conflicts are not resolved? Is their situation so unique that you can't explore the remaining tension with your own characters?

 

[bisexualsmoker]

And don't forget, some authors are very concerned about copyright
and such. They might think you're stealing they're ideas. I'd
talk to them first.

 

[deeteeZA]

Many Thnaks

Thanks for all the input folks, I guess I could live without knowing what happened to the characters in the story and move on to bigger (and hopefully better) things??

Once again, Thank You

 

[CWatson]

Either that or just store the idea away until you can use it later.

Right now I'm brainstorming on a massive science-fiction story. It started out when my friend and I, who are both Trekkies, started chatting about what the next TV series would be like if it were up to us. Now, obviously, I can't write it Star Trek, because somebody else owns that whole Intellectual Propery, so I've been changing the universe, the technology level, the ranks, the politics, the spaceship design, everything... And in some ways I'm actually glad to have cut myself free, because then I can design and build everything so that it supports the central story: two halves of humanity that, despite many grievances and wars between them, still need each other. And, in the end, I could tell that story anywhere. I could put it in Middle-Earth, I could put it in the Old West, I could put it in a hospital filled with quirky and snarky doctors, I could put it in a post-apocalyptic zombie world. It would fit anywhere, because the story itself is (to quote Thomas Harris) "beyond plight and time." All the best stories are.

So don't give up just because you can't jump off someone else's springboard. In the end, you probably didn't really need it.

 

[deeteeZA]

So don't give up just because you can't jump off someone else's springboard. In the end, you probably didn't really need it.