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There I was, trudging up to the end of the story.

Then it stopped.

I looked at it. I knew what happened after the event I described. But I knew it wasn't part of this story.

I considered the possibility of sequels and jotted down notes. Ah, how the prospect cut down on a long denouement.

Working on one. It is perhaps explicable in that it's about the great-grandson of the original book's heroine.

I know where the story will end.

So it's going to end there.

Despite vague knowledge of what will happen after that. That gets to be its own story after it coughs up the rest of itself.

The problem with cutting out nifty ideas that don't work in the story as it comes together, and then putting them aside for the sequel, is that then you end up with an armful of slippery little ideas and have start getting them to come together.

Is it really more difficult than the first story was? I'm not sure, but I'll blame the sequel status for it. 0:)

Working on two outlines, one "sequel" to the other.

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In the first book, two characters will discuss how to deal with evil sorcerers who fled the land.

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So the characters are standing around arguing about justice and the rule of law and vigilantes especially when its officers of the law who are breaking the law. . . .
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The ideas for a sequel to a WIP are appearing. A WIP that is still very much in the formation process.

The one advantage of this, I realize, is that I can use it as a clipping file for ideas that got cut from the WIP. Thus far everything fits.

Finished outlining my sequel to my Sleeping Beauty story -- set the century later, when she wakes up.

It's about the prince who is her cousin's great-grandson, not the one who wakes her up. Though it does affect him.

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Crossposts: https://marycatelli.livejournal.com/1315095.html

So I write. I write 200 antiwords, 700 words on the new pass. AND at 24,700 words, this draft is done! Woot!

And so I think, what should I write while that sits on the backburner for the pass for grammar and things?

So the muse says, remember that idea you left out? It's true, and it's going to be in her great-grandson's day. Outline another story!

It does seem to come together nicely. And it does distract.

Crossposts: https://marycatelli.livejournal.com/1313052.html

I don't generally write like this.

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Crossposts: https://marycatelli.livejournal.com/1158521.html

"And they lived happily ever after and had many sons and daughters. . . "

Though it's wise to consider whether you want to have a sequel before you overdo the fertility.

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Crossposts: https://marycatelli.livejournal.com/1157420.html

Getting into harness about writing those sequel outlines.

First order of business: figure out all the villainous characters in the first book who can come to the forefront in sequels.

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Crossposts: https://marycatelli.livejournal.com/1154183.html

Still plugging along on the story -- first draft, even, not "kick it out the door" or even second or third draft. And the outlines for the what-now-appear-to-be-sequels are jumping up and down.

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Crossposts: https://marycatelli.livejournal.com/1153610.html

With heroic effort, I remind myself that even if I know that the baby born at a stage in the story is going to marry one of the other babies (or children, there are a number of boys not so old that it would be unreasonable in a fairy tale), it's obviously not going to happen in the denouement.

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Crossposts: https://marycatelli.livejournal.com/1152399.html

So, what do you name a Cinderella?

Assuming it's pulled out a fairy-tale world even to more a high fantasy one, Cinderella's a bit off.

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Crossposts: https://marycatelli.livejournal.com/1146426.html

Inspired by Beasts and Cursed Child -- the place to set up for sequels is not in the end of a story, but in the middle. Not always by planting problems. Another approach is planting world-building to not only show that the world is wide, but that there are other problems. Or have been.
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A Dark Lord or other such Evil Force is a nice unifying thing for a story, and still more a series. However many minions he has, however many ramifications the plot has, the tale has a nice unity.

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Series can be divvied up by how tightly connected they are. They can also be divvied up by how formulaic they are. Which is not in itself a bad thing. It can produce a difference like a poet's book titled Poems, and one titled Sonnets.

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Sometimes when you throw in a bit of local color, it influences things before and after, adding subplots, character complexity, what have you.
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Mary Catelli's Erraticly Updated and Exceedingly Ill-Organized Journal

being chiefly about the written word

Entries tagged with sequels

sequels and conclusions

ah sequels

the end, the future

juggling ideas again

sequels and time

geopolitics of sequels

philosophic discussion

one advantage of sequels

the sequel

to end and begin

sequels and prequels and stuff

sequels and children

sequels and threads

sequels

one way to curb the denouement. . . .

the game of names

a reflection on sequels

chaos and sequels

flirting with a formula

opening up the world