On Ending Fics and the Future:

First of all folks, a brief announcement: I don't get notifications of replies to my replies. So if you have responded and asked me a question or something, let me know to look for it.

With that out of the way, like I said in the HP winner post, I have seen the responses over on the December Format poll.  Remember that’s a weighted poll, so I don’t know who’s winning even if it might seem that the votes for the current format is ahead.

However, I wanted to address a few points that were raised by those who took the time to do more than vote and left me responses. Love seeing such.  Four of those responses were about, as Arkos Sloth put it, my having too many plates in the air, and how I should focus on the fics closest to completion.  Others, on the other hand, want to see me go back to some of the fics that have been put on the back burner or cancelled.

For those who do not know, or would like a refresher, those stories closest to being finished are Making Waves and FILFY Teacher.  The Ranma/Fairy Tail crossover is within three to four chapters or so of being finished. FILFy, the HP/DxD merging fanfic, is five chapters or so chapters away from ending, depending on the size of the chapters and how large an epilogue I do.  

Here is also where I apologize again. Real Life (becoming an uncle, helping to set up the house, dealing with issues with my own and everything else there) really cut into the time I could spend on my fics, and pushed FILFy in several different ways, to the point where I have scenes written for the next two chapters in that fic and struggled to get it out in three months rather than when I wanted to. UGH.

Of the two fics, I could see myself knocking off Making Waves, if I concentrate solely on it as my fourth fic a month, by February. Depending on how February goes, anyway. Short ass month is always weird.  I won’t deny that would be nice.  I have enjoyed working in the Fairy Tail universe, but it is time to end that story and move on. 

However, there are other ways to cut down on the number of plates (fics) I have in the air.   I could cancel Heroes, as, while it has it’s vocal fans (me among them LOL) , the fic’s never won without the carry over effect. The same goes – including the vocal fans (again me)– for Bhaalson Remodel.  I would hate that, but I could do it. I could also cut out GDWHOM, as it doesn’t do very well when matched up against Stallion and even loses to Effect of a Horse and a Dragon. This would cut the HP and Ranma only polls to two choices each, meaning that each fic would have a better chance of getting updated several times in a row.  What do you all think of the three-fic rotation? Is it working for those six fics?

I could create a fourth poll every month for those stories, FILFy and MW. That way everything could have a chance to be updated.  I could go with the idea of removing one poll each month to update MW/FILFy until they’re done. And of course, there’s editing the final chapters of ATP to consider.

So you all tell me what you think.  This isn’t a poll. I’m not going to promise to go with a specific choice.  This is just a place for you all to tell me what you think.  If you think I’m trying to hard to please everyone, tell me.  If you don’t care about anything but one specific story, tell me.  If you have suggestions, tell me. If you dislike the fact I keep on changing stuff, tell me. Let it all out, and let’s see where we go from here.