About Writing Sequels

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A brief essay about my philosophy on writing sequels.
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Summary: A brief essay about my philosophy on writing sequels.

Thanks: To MAB7991 for a quick edit of this brief essay.

To my fans,

I am greatly appreciative of your support for my stories. I love when you leave comments and when you e-mail your thoughts. I love getting requests for original stories and I also love the fevered requests I get for sequels. Alas, therein lies the rub to quote Shakespeare.

The more stories I write the more requests I get for sequels. I try to balance my writing in the following order:

-Contest stories...there are six contests a year and I try to write at least two, sometimes three original stories for the contest (sequels are not allowed)

-Sequels

-Requested stories...although I don't do a lot of those due to time (the concept being if it turns me on enough I may do it)

-Novellas...I try to do one a year at least that are different from my usual themes (She-Male School, Deconstructing the Professor, or the newest the just released DARK Desires)

-New stories in my usually categories (lesbian, incest, gay, interracial, anal or group mostly)

Now I hope you see my dilemma. Every story I have written has had numerous sequel requests. For example, I had three contest stories in the most recent 2013 Nude Day contest: NUDE Lesbian Wrestling: Coed Tricked, Straight Cocksucker and Mom Submission. Each of these stories has had many sequel requests...meanwhile I am busy writing other stories and sequels.

The most common complaint is why I don't finish one series before I start another. There are a few reasons:

  1. I am already writing other stories (I actually am always writing at least two at a time...thank goodness for my editor MAB7991 for catching continuity errors I sometimes have)

  2. I never know which story will be popular. For example, I thought Like Mother, Like Daughter is one of my best stories and yet it has very few reads...although a good score.

  3. Lastly, writing sequels is much more work than writing a new story.

Difficulty of Writing Sequels:

The biggest problem is that I believe my greatest strength is creating interesting characters and setting-up enticing, fun sexual situations. In sequels, the set-up is already done thus continuing to build on the characters or the set-up is a lot more difficult.


For example, it has worked well in What Mom Knows series where the story evolved from a mom-son incest story...to a complex MILF-teen love story, while still keeping the incest.

On the other hand, Making Mommy Mine two was a complete mess...a story just to write a sequel (in all fairness it was one of my first sequels and I really didn't know what I was doing). However, I have gone back and read that now and realize it added nothing to the characters or the plot, if anything it took away from part one.

So, now when I write a sequel...I am determined to make it as good as possible and worth reading. For example, Bedding the Babysitter has had just six chapters in three years and that is because each chapter had been very difficult to write. I wrote seven different version starts before I finally came up with the chapter six that is now published. I have started part seven at least three times and yet I have not come up with the right plot, one that I wish to continue as of yet (although I am trying something a little different which I hope turns into part 7). Sometimes inspiration takes time.

As an author, it is important to understand each story is a journey. For example, Mom Submission was supposed to be a quick stroke mom-son incest story for the 2013 Nude Day Contest, but as I continued to write, it evolved into the lengthy meandering complex story it is.

In conclusion, as I don't want to beat a dead horse to death, I write a lot (too much truthfully) and will always do my best to write stories that are interesting and also write sequels to stories my readers most request.

That said....they take time.

My newest story (Mommy: Daughter Begins Training Mom), a sequel strangely, has had strange comments about me not writing sequels fast enough...which led to this author's rant.

So if you really loved a story leave a comment, e-mail me your suggestions for sequels and, of course, vote. I do read all online comments and check my e-mail almost daily (and respond to the majority of my e-mail) and respond as best I can as time permits (I do have a full time teaching career, have two children and a husband that take up a major portion of my time). The stories that get the most requests for sequels are often the ones I write first...I will also be honest with you if I don't intend to write another sequel (for example I doubt I will ever write a sequel to Blackmailing Beauty or another chapter to my first story The Complete Submission).

That all said, besides two contest stories, I will be releasing Pet Mommy 3: Falling Deeper into Incest in August 2013 and am starting sequels to a few other stories including a very big surprise to the most requested sequel with over 200 comments: CATCHING MOMMY...hopefully to out in October 2013.

Thanks for reading my rant, reading my stories and all the support you have given me.

PS: I could write another essay on grammar errors comments. But to keep it short, I am a good writer, I have great editors but due to my excessive writing some minor things do often get missed (of instead of if for example). Although I wish every story was perfect, creating such perfection would greatly slow down my productivity.

For example, DARK Desires which was just released was edited by three different people, besides myself, and I estimate over forty hours of editing by my editors and another 5-10 hours as I made the edits, changed minor plot issues, and so forth.

Again, I appreciate all the support I get, but felt it was important to put some perspective and explain my rationale for why I do what I do.

Your humble author

Jasmine

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AnonymousAnonymous9 months ago

Thank you, Jasmine, for being so helpfully honest about what the problems are. Those of us who do not write have little or no idea of what is involved. I once wrote a "novel" printed it off, bound it in book form. It had taken about eighteen months but ended up as only 86 pages A5 size. To be honest, it wasn't very good and only circulated among family members who weren't impressed.

AnonymousAnonymousover 1 year ago

Thanks for the insights into what you do. I’m very impressed by your ability to write as often as you do given your career and family responsibilities. You’re one of my favorite authors.

TamaboneTamaboneover 1 year ago

I really enjoy getting inside your head and seeing the reasons why you do what you do. It is a hard thing to write an entertaining and engaging story, and I think that you do it quite well. I have attempted to write several stories myself but always toss them aside before they are finished. I always think I have a good idea for a story based on one of my fantasies but it is so hard to turn my thoughts into a well written story. Putting pen to paper is much harder than fantasizing the story. The next time I try to write I may consult this article and use some of your advice. Thank you for doing this.

Have you ever considered trying to write a multiple chapter story where each chapter is deliberately in a different category? You could keep it going checking off every category as you go. Just an idea I had while reading this. Thanks again.

4chuckssite4chuckssiteover 1 year ago

Sorry but I think your rationale is a bit off kilter. I agree with the comment below that suggests completions trump quantity in story submittals. And quality is important as well. It is hard to believe that several people spend hours editing your work considering the quantity of errors that interrupt the readability. I’m guessing that most of the errors come from dictating the story and the interpretation by the dictation software. I’d say, as a fairly recent reader of your stories (about 100 so far) that most have suggestions for sequels that both of us know will never be written. I’d rather to see the suggested end of the stories I choose to read rather than substitution of entirely new, but unfinished stories that satisfy your apparent lust for participating in a contest and being one of the most prolific writers on this site. Your imagination and writing talent are impressive. Excellence in the presentation of the FINISHED product is important to this reader.

AnonymousAnonymousalmost 3 years ago

Your reasoning for not finishing a story is waaay off kilter. When you write a story you have a DUTY to your readers to complete it, not leave them hanging. It isn't as complex as you purport it to be, not by a long stretch. Some of your stories wrap up nicely but with others you just get lazy. Contrary to your way of thinking, it isn't the readers' job to use their imagination to finish a story, it's your job to provide it!! That's the reason we're reading stories here in the first place. I want to be entertained by what I'm reading and the storyline should be providing that, not just a description of the sex. The volume of your writing is overtaking the essence of what should be the priority, which is to finish what you start before moving on. Please finish up many of your good stories as many of us wish.

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