Hello, and Welcome

[sgatlantislight]

Welcome to Stargate Sequential. Hope everyone's excited about this idea. Please, be sure to check out the comm profile for a list of rules. There are a lot of them, but most of them are pretty commonsense.

If anyone has any questions or suggestions, feel free to ask.

Thanks!

Comments

[sgatlantislight]

Mmm... Not sure I'm quite following...

I think you're talking about a series, right? As in, you've got Story A and a follow-up to it, Story B. The question is, do you have to make Story A the story to sequel-ise or is it okay to link to/post both and let people write sequels to Story B? Am I reading right?

The answer is, it's fine for it to have been a short-ish series and allow people to follow up on the last part.

Let's take a real life example-- I have a fic called "The Entrepreneur" which has two sequels, "Two for the Price of One" and "Afterward" (plot-wise, of course, nothing happens in "Afterward" that isn't pretty much implied in "Two..." (since "Afterward" is just a smutty PWP) so they're basically a single sequel split into two sections). I've given some consideration to writing more sequels, but probably won't, so I'm mulling posting links to these three and some dos and don'ts for sequels and letting folks have at it. Sequels would, in essence, be sequels to Two/Afterward (though I don't have a problem with folks actually writing events that might have happened between The Entrepreneur and Two/Afterward if they'd so desire, so long as they don't violate what happens in the latter chapters).

Or, I could, as you suggested, allow people to do a sequel to Entrepreneur, ignoring the events in Two/Afterward. My trilogy of stories would be, oh, Cafe Atlantis Thread 1. Any Entrepreneur-only sequels to would be Cafe Atlantis Thread 2 (or 3 or 4).

Is that clear or have I just muddied the waters further?

[murdocsangel]

You cleared it up for me, thanks.