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

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.