[ SECRET POST #4799 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4799 ⌋

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Comments

Is it ever okay to ask if you can finish someone's WIP for them?

[(Anonymous)]

I sometimes find myself wanting to write the ending to an unfinished story or series by another author, and I've never been brave enough to ask.

Re: Is it ever okay to ask if you can finish someone's WIP for them?

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, the worst they can say is no. And even then, you could probably write it and they couldn't stop you. Though if you posted it, that might be another matter.

I kinda get it though. Some WIPs look abandoned af. I'd started thinking about making a comm where people can dump their unfinished WIPs and let whoever at them, but then I remember LJ is all but dead and DW is sorta? And I'll never figure out tumblr for that purpose.

Re: Is it ever okay to ask if you can finish someone's WIP for them?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm thinking that the same people to leave their work unfinihsed also would be unavailable for questions about sequels. I've frequently seen writers who say their work is "inspired by" or a "sequel to" or an "ending for" someone's unfinished work. Nobody seems to mind. As long as you link to / acknowledge your inspiration, I don't see how it's that much different than writing fanfic in the first place...

Re: Is it ever okay to ask if you can finish someone's WIP for them?

[(Anonymous)]

This is how I would do it. If the author looks alive I MIGHT ask for permission, but personally I feel like no one has the right to deny you unless it's for publishing purposes or their work is so unique in the fanfic space that they could claim plagiarism. I imagine that's very, very rare...

Re: Is it ever okay to ask if you can finish someone's WIP for them?

[(Anonymous)]

I do this all the time in my head. Particularly with one-shots and open ended fic. Sometimes I'll write down base ideas and structure it all out, but (as with most all of my fic writing attempts) it pretty much sticks to this stage.

I had a pretty bad cold not too long ago and was half delirious from that and the fact I couldn't sleep and ended up imagining a whole scene-by-scene continuation for one of my favourite fics from 10PM to 7AM. It became a fix-it of sorts (for events that happen later on in canon) and the only reason I stopped is because I couldn't exactly remember the order of the canon itself... I still think about it even though I've forgotten a lot of it after I got over my cold. If I do ever manage to write/finish anything it would probably be that, tbh.

I'd say your best bet is to write it out/finish it, and maybe send it to the author (or a rough plan of what you want to happen) to see if they like it. That way they know you have something solid to go on and can off offer ideas that they planned to have happen to help. If they say no, and you still want to post it you can alter it so that it's inspired by their fic (or exists in the same universe) though not necessarily the continuation you were hoping to make.

Re: Is it ever okay to ask if you can finish someone's WIP for them?

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, if someone ever asked me that, I would be thrilled. My unfinished stuff is unfinished not because I didn't want to finish it, but because I just lost the momentum/interest/direction to do so. It would be awesome if someone else wanted to pick it up and do what I wasn't able to do so that readers could have a finished story.

Re: Is it ever okay to ask if you can finish someone's WIP for them?

[(Anonymous)]

I think it is okay to ask and I think some authors would be fine with it if they are truly stuck with story and some more would be okay with it once they got past that knee-jerk possessiveness of my story and remembered what fanfic is (I mean, I can't imagine they ask the creator of a show that got cancelled if they could write the further adventures of the show's characters).