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

[cordelia_v]

I started to process a comment on that, but the spelling and syntax on that one brought me to a dead halt. Is this a new dialect, that I'm unfamiliar with?

At any rate, I'm hoping that the person wasn't asking for completion of either "Reunion" or "Snape Manor," since that might have put you off finishing either one. And I'm still clinging to hope on both (especially the latter), because I think that perhaps HBP might inspire you to revisit either or both WiPs.

But I'm bemused (to put it politely) to think that there are people who believe you can place an author under Imperius to write on command, and think that such a request gets anyone's creative juices flowing.

*back to work. I'm drowing in work, the next 6 weeks. I should place a charm on the PC so that I get an electric shock if I even log on to LJ*

ZZZZOTZZ!!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

That was your electric shock. Like the amps? *Icarus cracks the whip* Now back to work.

It was Reunion, and I've received threats to finish WIPs in the past (Snape Manor), so this is nothing new. Just... this was an unusually rude example.

I agree with you that HBP will likely spark more HP writing. Snape Manor is haunting me still.

Icarus

Re: ZZZZOTZZ!!

[cordelia_v]

Oh, I hope it haunts you mercilessly, appearing to you in the dead of night, bloody and dripping with plot bunnies.

*zzzzzt* shocked again! Only two more essays to go, and then I can fill out my grade rosters.