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09/08/2011 13:4521 – Sequels – Have you ever written a sequel to a fic you wrote, and if so, why, and if not, how do you feel about sequels?
Ah. Complicated question. I'm in two minds about sequels. A lot of the sequels I see in fanfic - just like in any pro-media, TBH - aren't good enough to justify writing a sequel. They never get to the level of the original, and they even detract from it sometimes.
BUT. on the other hand. Sometimes you can see the author really has more stories to tell, and those stories have just as much point as the previous ones. In a lot of ways, the problems of many sequels are the same of many long stories anyway - the writer doesn't seem to know what to do with them.
In short, it depends.
As for me, while I have never actually got the level of posting sequels, there have been some in the works. The most chances of a sequel being written by me, though, is when it was planned from the beginning as a sequel. Alternate Realities Are No Excuse was originally imagined as a sequel to Time Crash, and even though that definitely isn't going to happen, it might end up being written one day reimagined as its own story. The HP thing I'm working on now is meant to have a sort of sequel, but not quite (there's 20 years apart and I do mean to write them in standalone way).
And of course, the Atlantis/ SG1 crossover sequel that got abandoned due to SG annoying me. This one will definitely not be written, seeing as I took the best scene out of it and put it in Reset (except, you know, with the Doctor and Jack and not Daniel Jackson, Elizabeth Weir and an OC Wraith. What does it say about me that the Doctor took the place of the wraith?!)
Ah. Complicated question. I'm in two minds about sequels. A lot of the sequels I see in fanfic - just like in any pro-media, TBH - aren't good enough to justify writing a sequel. They never get to the level of the original, and they even detract from it sometimes.
BUT. on the other hand. Sometimes you can see the author really has more stories to tell, and those stories have just as much point as the previous ones. In a lot of ways, the problems of many sequels are the same of many long stories anyway - the writer doesn't seem to know what to do with them.
In short, it depends.
As for me, while I have never actually got the level of posting sequels, there have been some in the works. The most chances of a sequel being written by me, though, is when it was planned from the beginning as a sequel. Alternate Realities Are No Excuse was originally imagined as a sequel to Time Crash, and even though that definitely isn't going to happen, it might end up being written one day reimagined as its own story. The HP thing I'm working on now is meant to have a sort of sequel, but not quite (there's 20 years apart and I do mean to write them in standalone way).
And of course, the Atlantis/ SG1 crossover sequel that got abandoned due to SG annoying me. This one will definitely not be written, seeing as I took the best scene out of it and put it in Reset (except, you know, with the Doctor and Jack and not Daniel Jackson, Elizabeth Weir and an OC Wraith. What does it say about me that the Doctor took the place of the wraith?!)