Prequels, Sequels, and Series

I was sort of thinking of creating a sequel to my current story, but ending it with questions.
Would that be a bad idea, do you think? Because reading some of your comments, it might be a little like continuing the first story...

merance:

I was sort of thinking of creating a sequel to my current story, but ending it with questions.
Would that be a bad idea, do you think? Because reading some of your comments, it might be a little like continuing the first story...

It depends on how you word it and if the story is just a continuation of the previous story. I mean a sequel that is the same as the original plot line is a bit flimsy as a whole. But that's just me.

However if you're really concerned you could call it part one and part two.

Regardless, it all depends on how you write it and whether you can captivate your readers once again. That wasn't much help was it?

i've started a few sequels of great stories i've written and im still unsure if i still wanna keep going, if its nessiscary to ruin the first story.

I hate sequels when the author does them because the first story is getting too long and they divide into two stories when in reality it's still the exact same storyline.

But I think sequels can be done right.

I'm going to do sequels for both of my lengthier stories. It's becasue that part of the story is finished, and instead of doing one of those in my opinion, really annoying, long time elapses, I do a sequel.

I simply think that those work a lot better.

I still don’t know what a sequel is, sorry. If I don’t know something, I don’t like it.

Audrey Kitching;:

I still don’t know what a sequel is, sorry. If I don’t know something, I don’t like it.

It's a part two of something.

Like, New Moon is a sequel of Twilight? It shows what happened after the first book/storyline. Or how the Harry Potter or LOTR books are a series, so the book that follows one book in a series is the sequel.

:shifty

^Oh, okay. Thank you for explaining :cute:.

For me, (then) it depends on the story and the plotline.

Yeah, I think it really depends on the situation.
If the story is taking some kind of major turn, then a sequel would probably work.
But if it's just going to be the exact same thing as the original, there's really no point.

I've written one before. It was for a noobeqsue frerard I had on here way back when.
I guess it sort of worked, because it was a different setting with some new characters. :think:

I've come up with this story idea, and I've decided I'm going to leave the end wide open, so there can be a sequel, but I'm not sure if I want one. :XD

It depends if I have enough to go by, or if I simply need to give it a sequel. My two chaptered stories (that I haven't deleted :tehe:) both have sequels. They both just needed one, since I left the ending as a sort of. . .disaster :XD

I don't know why, I just like sequels :tehe:
I think it's because I get attached to my stories/characters.

I've written one sequel.

It was to my story that had the most readers, and it turned out a complete disaster. I ended up rushing the ending just to get it out of the way.

I really didn't like how it turned out. I might delete it in a few weeks. :think:

I had a Green Day series called the "How We..." series.
I always planned on having three stories. But it worked because each story focused on a different sort of spot in the timeframe of the fic.

I had two oneshots that went together in Green Day. "Five Years Before" and "Five Years Later". I actually posted them together on Mibba as a sort of continuation because they were both so short, but they were one story and a sequel.

Sequels, in my opinion, have to be handled even more carefully than the prequel. A good sequel [in my eyes] should be able to stand on it's own while still being completely tied to the first story. And that's a pretty tricky task to pull off.

druscilla; nonsense.:

I had a Green Day series called the "How We..." series.
I always planned on having three stories. But it worked because each story focused on a different sort of spot in the timeframe of the fic.

:cheese: Can you tell me how it ends? God, I need to know. :lmfao

I don't mind sequels, really. it just depends on if the story is good enough :XD

Yeah, it depends on the story.

I've tried to write sequels before. I end up changing the character's personalities so much though, and it just doesn't work out properly. For me, writing sequels is not something I can do yet, but I think if you can execute it properly then there's no reason you shouldn't.
But if I see one more sequel where the couple has broken up and now they're trying their hand at it again and the question "Will they make or break it this time?" or something to that effect is in the summary one more time I am going to :mrgun: :lmfao

I think it depends on the prequel, really. If the plot line is dwindling down you don't want to drag it out forever, because then it gets boring and lame. =P
On the other hand, if you don't make a sequel and the characters still have something to say and a story to tell, then that leaves both the characters and the readers hanging.

sunset boulevard:

I think it depends on the prequel, really. If the plot line is dwindling down you don't want to drag it out forever, because then it gets boring and lame. =P
On the other hand, if you don't make a sequel and the characters still have something to say and a story to tell, then that leaves both the characters and the readers hanging.

You could always write a One-Shot for a sequel...that way it doesn't become a full blown epic if it doesn't need to be.

I believe sequels are only good if there's a large time lapse between the first part and then the second.

You don't nessacarily need an open ending to start a sequel. In my favorite series, the ending of the first book didn't really call for a sequel. I wouldn't been fine if that was it. It also took the author about ten years to write a sequel, heh. It also didn't really rely on the first book. It was a totally different story, but they went. And as the series went on, you needed to have read the other books.

You just need a good story.

Out of all the stories I've ever written over my four year "career", I have yet written a sequel. I can never think of a good story. I have come up where characters make cameos in other stories, though.

I think if the sequel has a connection to the prequel without it being the same storyline, then sequels are just fine.

I have yet to write a sequel to any of my stories (mostly because they're not finished :tehe:), but I think if I were to write one for the story I'm currently working on, it would fail, majorly. Maybe you just get some kind of knack for sequels when you're born that makes you good at writing them. :D

The only thing I really don't like about the idea of sequels is when there's more than one. I've seen stories where they have the original, then a sequel, and another sequel, and another. There are very few cases where that is needed and it just gets to be endless.

I've only done one sequel. It wasn't planned, but the idea hit me and I figured a sequel would be appropriate. I really thought about how I ended my prequel though and had to make sure I didn't have too much finality. I think that' s important.