Thirty Days of Fanficton: Day Twenty-One

21 – Sequels – Have you ever written a sequel to a fic you wrote, and if so, why, and if not, how do you feel about sequels?

Generally speaking, I don't like sequels; usually you tell the story you wanted to, it has a natural ending, and then there is no reason to add something other than it's popular. But of course there are exceptions to every rule, as I found out both as a reader and a writer. Originally I meant the story Incubus to stand on its own, but then I wondered about two different things - what became of Joe`s daughter Amy after the episode Indiscretions, and what would happen to Andrew Lanart after Incubus? - which led to the semi-sequel/side story
Transferences. While writing it, it occured to me that both stories demanded a follow-up in which Cassandra and Methos would meet again, we'd see Amy in her new job, and various issues raised by the previous two stories needed to come to head, and before I knew it, I wrote Once Out of Nature and had a trilogy.


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