Top 5 Unfinished WIPs

[yourlibrarian]

Ah the abandoned WIP. Some of them are already epics, some only 5 or 6 chapters but chances are most of them had readers still waiting for an ending (or sometimes a middle). Finished or not though, many of them are worth reading anyway for the great stories or character moments they did have.

1.Season Noir by Anna S. - NC-17 – An ambitious attempt at a Buffy S8 that had one of the most fascinating final chapters I’ve ever read. A pity it’ll never get to its intended conclusion but I’m not too unhappy it ended on the note that it did.


2. Dancing Lessons by multiple authors - NC-17 - One of the first S/B stories I came across. As it went on it became quite the ensemble piece and I was sorry that it didn’t continue. Lengthy story though with plenty to recommend it for reading since earlier parts do have their own conclusion.

3.Coquette’s Trilogy - NC-17 – Which is really just one and a half parts completed, but looked back at Spike’s early days with the rest of the Fanged Four. An interesting approach for fans of historical fic.

4. Male Bonding by Jackson - NC-17 - Part of an S/X trilogy with Divided and Two's Company this third part has never gotten past the first two chapters. Its ending however has a certain finality to it even if we could have used more.

5. The Great and Terrible by Rachel Anton - NC-17 – A much shorter WIP than the rest on this list. An apocalypse has happened and Angel, Spike and Willow are the only survivors. Not a post-NFA fic actually as this was written prior to BtVS S7 but it had interesting possibilities.

Comments

[jans-intentions.livejournal.com]

Oh, you really have some truly fantastic things here. AnnaS. *sigh*

And Dancing Lessons.

Man, this is just the cream.

[yourlibrarian]

Yes, these are stories I remember going to over and over hoping there was some new update. Two I arrived at too late, the others had a few more parts before they stopped.

I was trying for a bit of variety here as I'm sure a lot of people could come up with great abandoned WIPs for just a single ship :>

[smudgiboo.livejournal.com]

I have only read 2,but isn't it sad when that happens,for me it's got to be Seven years in the Desert, I loved that story.

[yourlibrarian]

I had to go look that one up because the name was so familiar. Yep, I remember reading it. At least it's still online here: http://www.missivesfromthehellmouth.com/sevenyears/disclaimer.html

[thatotherperv.livejournal.com]

ARGH I loved the great and terrible. I still mourn that it never got finished. I can usually forgive an unfinished wip if the hot porn has already occurred, but if I'm left wanting, I wail and nash my teeth. that threesome would have been so good. *cries for it all over again*

good recs :)

[yourlibrarian]

Yay, someone else who remembers it! Her Geek the Girl series was very good but it did get its ending. This one sadly *sigh*

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

Good choices! And great idea for a list. Though I can think of quite a few others just off hand!

[yourlibrarian]

Sometimes I think the unfinished ones stick with us even more than the completed ones -- probably for the same reason we write fic in the first place.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Then there was the Chains Series (http://www.sabershadowkat.com/opwof/lynn2.html) by Lynn (http://www.sabershadowkat.com/opwof/opwof.html#lynn)."sigh"

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Which is quite NC-17

[yourlibrarian]

Yep, I imagine most of us could easily put together 5 or more stories we still want to see finished.

[kathyh]

Great list. I always had an inkling that Season Noir would never be finished but it was wonderful while it lasted. I've always mourned Mortal Wounds by treacle_a too.

[yourlibrarian]

At least the good thing about these WIPs is that they're are still available online. The amount of stuff that's disappeared really breaks your heart.

[lusciousxander.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of an idea just like this one. :) Also intended to have Male Bonding by Jackson but now I'll think of something else. I never read that fic by Anna S, guess I should try it out, she's an amazing writer.

[yourlibrarian]

*g* I'm thinking of elisi's comment a few entries back that she couldn't bear to see people deprived of this great stuff :D

Yep, I think this is a category that comes naturally to most people. We all remember those stories we really enjoyed but which left us hanging (and which we still re-read).

Unfinished WIPs

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you so much for the link to Dancing Lessons, I've been looking for ages to find this fic and I didn't know how.

Elora

Re: Unfinished WIPs

[yourlibrarian]

You know it wasn't until last year's Top 5 that I found out it had been archived on LJ. So I'm just passing along the favor ;>

[stretfordditto.livejournal.com]

My five wips I wish were finished...doesn't include Coquette's 'A Winters Tale'...I so wish she'd finish that one ::laments::

ANNIE SEWELL-JENNINGS AKA ANNIES J. 'Apocaspander' anniesj@comcast.net http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=anniesj&keyword=my+fanfic&filter=all

CIMMER cimmerdeux@yahoo.com 'Old Friends' sequel 'Not So Innocents Abroad' sequel 'Lost and Found' S/X http://www.angelfire.com/stars3/jux_ta_pose/cimmer.htm http://www.angelfire.com/stars3/jux_ta_pose/lost_and_found.htm

FLAMING MUSE 'Nothing is Forever' flaming_muse@yahoo.com http://flaming-muse.livejournal.com/211210.html?view=4308234#t4308234 Website: http://www.geocities.com/ainm66/fm_fiction/Nothing_MainPage.html

WITLING & SAUSSY 'BasementOfDebasement' http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=drcoulter&keyword=Basement+S/X&filter=all

WITLING 'Chophouse' witling@yahoo.co.uk http://www.livejournal.com/users/witling/105924.htm#cutid1 http://www.livejournal.com/users/witling/106094.html#cutid1 http://witling.livejournal.com/106318.html

[stretfordditto.livejournal.com]

Damn it, why do my links never work!!! Here's Chophouse 1 - http://witling.livejournal.com/105924.html

[yourlibrarian]

Ooh, I don't remember seeing that second one! Looks like something I'm going to have to check out.

[stretfordditto.livejournal.com]

The Cimmer? My sister and I have read it twice. You'll laugh your socks off if you like Spike and Xander. :D