How *not* to ask for an update.

[icarus]

Asking for updates is fine. Even when I don't have time, it will often jog my mind about a story, and I'm flattered people want to hear more.

I finished Primer To The Dark Arts, the Beg Me For It series, The Walls of Jericho is complete and in beta review as we speak. My track record of finishing WIPs is solid. I have one WIP that I'm not going to finish, and that's A Deserving Man. It was written for someone who's just not interested in more.

But this, as requests go...

hey...

the first chapters were quite interesting but i lost it when i realized
that the story is not yet done...sorry...

can u like finish it coz it really frustrates me to read a well-written
fic without an ending...

so pls finish it already...

My first response is: No.

Comments

[teaphile.livejournal.com]

What I'm *planning* on doing is posting them as-is to my fanfic page with a "overview of the rest of the story" so interested readers aren't left hanging. Pull together my outline and some later scenes I'd worked up, and that way people can at least know where I intended to go with it, even if I don't have it written out in fully polished prose.

I've done that, for wip_amnesty. If nothing else, it assuages any remaining guilt you have about not finishing.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I did that with "An Elegant Man" and then actually ended up finishing it.

Icarus