Message to Readers

[gunhilltrain]

I have gotten the same from readers. I just ignore them. I even got one on a story were everyone in the story died at the end. Several readers posted "More!" in the comments.

Ignore them. Write something else. You will probably get the same comments. Ignore those too.

Ultimately the writers have to determine whether there will be any sequels. Sometimes an idea will pop up later, sometimes much later, sometimes not. There was one reader (maybe there have been others I have forgotten) who even suggested a sequel plot. It wasn't like anything I'd ever do, so when I did eventually write a sequel I went my own way with it.

 

[NikkiSparrow]

I even got one on a story were everyone in the story died at the end. Several readers posted "More!" in the comments.

Ha! That's funny.

I think when readers comment "more!" they are just asking for more from the writer. Not necessarily more of those specific characters or that story, although if they like the characters and want to see them in action again they will sometimes be direct in asking for it. I'd consider it a high compliment.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Ha! That's funny.

I think when readers comment "more!" they are just asking for more from the writer. Not necessarily more of those specific characters or that story, although if they like the characters and want to see them in action again they will sometimes be direct in asking for it. I'd consider it a high compliment.

That may be true about wanting more from the writer about anything, but who can tell? I'm reminded of Misery in which Annie Wilkes forces Paul to resurrect the deceased Misery Chastain character - or else!

 

[KeithD]

Ha! That's funny.

I think when readers comment "more!" they are just asking for more from the writer. Not necessarily more of those specific characters or that story, although if they like the characters and want to see them in action again they will sometimes be direct in asking for it. I'd consider it a high compliment.

Not my experience. When they ask for more, they get pretty specific that they want an extension of that specific story.

 

[SamScribble]

Not my experience. When they ask for more, they get pretty specific that they want an extension of that specific story.

Yes, I think that most of my 'more' requests - and there are rather a lot of them - are for: What did the characters do next?

 

[MillieDynamite]

That may be true about wanting more from the writer about anything, but who can tell? I'm reminded of Misery in which Annie Wilkes forces Paul to resurrect the deceased Misery Chastain character - or else!

Yes, she gave him all the breaks she could!

 

[gunhilltrain]

Yes, she gave him all the breaks she could!

Spoiler Alert:

Didn't he kill her with the typewriter at the end - book and/or movie? A little heavy on the symbolism, but I'll accept it.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Spoiler Alert:

Didn't he kill her with the typewriter at the end - book and/or movie? A little heavy on the symbolism, but I'll accept it.

I don't remember which is what anymore. I have seen the movie several times, I read the book twice, but I can't tell you what is different than which anymore. I do know there were changes between book and film.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I don't remember which is what anymore. I have seen the movie several times, I read the book twice, but I can't tell you what is different than which anymore. I do know there were changes between book and film.

Misery - the movie - plot synopsis

 

[gunhilltrain]

Misery - the movie - plot synopsis

So in the movie he hits her with the typewriter but he uses the door stop to kill her. Both versions are extremely creepy but it's one of the few King works that doesn't seem to have any supernatural elements.

 

[lovecraft68]

So in the movie he hits her with the typewriter but he uses the door stop to kill her. Both versions are extremely creepy but it's one of the few King works that doesn't seem to have any supernatural elements.

Which is what made it more effective. This was pure human evil/crazy and it could happen. Once the "okay we know this could never be real" element is replaced with something that can happen, its another level.

Its why Michael Slades novels are so disturbing. His serial killers are sick AF, but its not supernatural, just disturbing, much like the movie Se7en is technically not a horror movie, but....yeah it is.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

As long as your readers demand or even spam you with requests for more, you know you did something right. Once they stop asking for more is when you should start worrying

 

[lovecraft68]

As long as your readers demand or even spam you with requests for more, you know you did something right. Once they stop asking for more is when you should start worrying

Conversely, when you get nasty comments telling you to stop writing, that can be a win too.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Misery - the movie - plot synopsis

I'll have to find time to reread the book and re-watch the movie. But this will help.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Hello. I am (relatively) new here. I’ve posted a story. Jack and Wendy. It’s a short story, but some of the readers seem to think that it’s the beginning a series.

Although it was never my intention, I could possibly write more stories with the same characters. The characters certainly have legs. But I don’t seem to be able to find any way to tell the readers that, unless they give this story a solid Red H, there will not be any more of the stories they tell me they are so looking forward to. I am not used to working FOC. If the readers are not going to send envelopes filled with readies, they had better vote six stars.

I am hoping that one of you ‘old hands’ can advise me on how to get this message across. Thank you.

Translation: All you readers aren't telling me how fucking amazing I am! Get off your ass and fluff me, dammit!

 

[SamScribble]

Translation: All you readers aren't telling me how fucking amazing I am! Get off your ass and fluff me, dammit!

Or - here's another possibility - he/she has a good point.

I have posted umpteen stand-alone short stories here, and pretty much every one of them has attracted several can't-wait-for-the-next-chapter comments. Also, most have been severely one-bombed at some stage. Happily, they also seem to get five-bombed. Literotica readers are definitely weird.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Or - here's another possibility - he/she has a good point.

I have posted umpteen stand-alone short stories here, and pretty much every one of them has attracted several can't-wait-for-the-next-chapter comments. Also, most have been severely one-bombed at some stage. Happily, they also seem to get five-bombed. Literotica readers are definitely weird.

Ya think so?

 

[SamScribble]

Ya think so?

Not every single one of them, Millie. But more than a few.

 

[stickygirl]

It would be useful to have a mechanism to add a note to the start of a story after publication as a 'pre-script' to avoid having to go through the full Edit process and wasting the editors' time.