On Sequels & Plot bunnies.

[lightofdaye]

Sequels are tricky everyone knows that. Mostly people think of them in terms of films I guess and 'a sequel better than the original' is a rare and highly sort of accolade. And everyone can think of goddawful film sequels that rather they couldn't' Spider-Man 3/X-Men 3/Highlander 2 etc.

Why do I bring this up? Well I kinda, sorta, talked about a sequel to my veela fic with tamlane, who being entirely to blame for that fic the first place was of course very enthusiastic about the idea.Especially when I mentioned the idea I had of making it m/f/f. Then I tried to sit down to do some writing yesterday and... got nowhere. Though this isn't new for me, lol, especially for threesome fics. I have at least a couple of threesome fics I attempted for asoiafkinkmemeon my harddrive that got like a paragraph in before grinding to a halt

. So anyway, as anyone attempted sequels to their fics? How did that go? How did you keep it both fresh and consistent with previous fics? And the other thing, how many plot bunnies do you get that never go anywhere?

edit: Some HP plot bunnies i have that yet to make it out of my head.

• James/Roxy/Al Love triangle fic.  Wherein Al is shy and James is an arsehole bad boy.


• Ron/Hermione. Their first time in Ron’s room at the Burrow. (probably 100s of versions of this though)


• Harry/Hannah.  My brain seem to like Harry needing rebound sex. After being dumped Harry mopes at the leaky cauldron constantly until the landlady offers him a nightcap.

Comments

[luna-plath.livejournal.com]

You could always go the route of Harry being afraid of getting too close to people because he doesn't understand intimacy, and have him in a series of plateaued relationships. That would make sense to me as a reader.

Love triangles are a classic. I think you could make it work with Al and James, but it would be difficult to get the right characterization for Roxanne, since we know the least about her.

[lightofdaye]

Yeah. I can see Harry being pants at emotions and thus being no good at relationships. Of course I never did like Harry/Ginny so i also have no problem with mild weasley bashing and having ginny dump him cos she's not nice/focused on her careers/whatever.

Of course in those cases its also easy to go 'harry and ginny never got back together after the way because of stuff.' move on to unattached Harry floundering on the dating scene.