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What do you do with your unfinished stories?

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honey:
Have we talked about this before? 

I personally hate falling in love with a story and then getting to the end just to find out it hasn't it hasn't been updated in like a million years, *cough* Yesterday's Blue Skies *cough* so I recently took down all the stories that I basically know I don't plan on finishing and I was just wondering what all of you think on the subject. But them I'm kind of conflicted about it too, because sometimes even an unfinished story is worth reading, whether it ever gets finished or not, *cough* Yesterday's Blue Skies *cough*

Anyway,

I hate not finishing stories, but there are a couple I have that have just always been a headache and I'm tired of stressing about them, like poor "Kevin's Song", so I said forget it. It was kind of hard to turn in the towel, but I do feel a little relieved now.

Have any of you guys done that? What do you do with your unfinished stories? Do you make yourself finish them? Do you leave them up, but incomplete? Do you take them down?

And, haha, go figure the week after I take down "The Day I Fall", I get in the mood to work on it and have been writing it all week. That one has been in the works for years now though, and I only get the urge to update it like maybe once every six months or so, so maybe I'll post it again if I ever finish it. I dunno, what do you guys think?

Sakabelle:
I hate hate hate that!  And I'm really bad for starting something and not finishing it.  I have four stories in progress right now (Well, five if you count "Broken Hearted" but that's technically done and just needs to be typed up).  I'm really going to force myself to finish my unfinished stories.  Red Herring will get done, I just kind of lost my inspiration with the writers strike and no new House episodes.  Maybe I'll go watch my boxsets or something.  Not Like We Predicted is pissing me off lol.. but it's been in progress for so long, and has had so many iterations that I need to get it done.  Even if no one reads it, I really need it to be finished one day.  Inner Core will of course get done, but I mean that one for me will be really really easy to write. 

I'm actually quite surprised with myself for managing to finish "In Pieces"  I just started it because I was bored honestly.  I ended up falling in love with the characters, and now I'm writing a sequel.  I'm not going to start anything new until I finish two things.

But to answer your question Kelly, I think I'll just leave them all unfinished on the site.  I do intend to finish them, but when I don't know.  Red Herring especially, it had such a positive response, so I really want to finish it just because there were so many people that seemed to be enjoying it.  Even if I decided to never finish it, I think I might leave it up, and maybe open it up so others could try to finish it.  That might be cool.

starbeamz:
I posted a note at the end of mine apologizing to my readers for being a jerkface and losing the inspiration to continue. I do feel bad because I always meant to finish the stories, and some of them were meant to be super awesome, but I just couldn't find the inspiration after a while. I'm not sure if it's because I lost interest in the BSB fanfic world, if it's because I had too many stories up and felt overwhelmed, or if it's just because I moved into original fiction. Either way, I am mad at myself for having all these awesome story ideas and starting them only to never finish.

I do, however, plan on finishing Hensley because it's a really awesome and much more serious story for me than anything else I've written, except maybe Then Again. I love murder, I love mystery, I love romance lol though the romance has been downsized in this story to a subplot. Anyway, that's the only one I plan on finishing now. I did convert my original fic to a bsb fic for my readers on AC, which means that that one will definitely be finished. All else...I didn't take them down, I just let the readers know it won't be happening. That way, if any of them do want to go back and read it, they can. I know it really bugs me when authors take down their awesome stories because I always want to go back and re-read all of Kid Sinclair's stuff on her site, but she removed it all :(

I hope that answered your question, Kelly. Though I know I've talked with you about this before, but yeah.

Rose:
I left them up, put a note on the summary saying that story is on hiatus. I never take them down, cause I hate when authors do that lol, but I do give a warning.

That, and at random I end up writing something for it.

MellzBellz:
Yea this is a frustrating topic! I have two unfinished stories up right now on AC Quarter Life Crisis and Scandalicious. As far as QLC goes I'm not sure if I have the desire to finish it. It's only like four chapters in or something and I was a bit unclear. I think it was going the dark, depressing, Anti Sue route anyway. I was actually consdering taking it down and if inspiration strikes picking it up again, but then I guess its good for readers to see my writing on a story outside of UMS/ALTOS.

As far as Scandalicious I'd love to finish it someday. I've gotten REALLY good feedback on it for being only three chapters, but suspense doesn't come as easy to me and it takes a lot of planning. I simply do not have the time to devote to it right now, but I may keep it just in case I hit writers block with ALTOS. Right now though I'm freakin in love with it lol

It sucks though because I have at least four other good ideas I'd like to explore for stories, but no time :( I'd like to start them, but experience tells me that when I try to do more than one story at once. I get a few chapters in and then go back to my main story and never pick up story B again.

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