I don't know you but I'm guessing you're not a writer? Because if you were you'd realise a few salient facts.
No one starts a story intending to leave it hanging unfinished. No one. Sometimes, not often, it happens and trust me, the person most upset about that is usually the author herself.
Until the day comes that fanfic is something you can buy (which would be never) an author owes a reader nothing, zip, sero. Common politeness and sincere gratitude makes me reply to feedback but I don't _have_ to and I don't have to write to order unless I've signed up for a ficathon, which isn't the case here.
Ladycat is NOT being unfair to her readers and that implies that she's choosing not to finish a story out of malice. Sometimes the impetus to write a fic goes away. It's beyond an author's control and that's all there is to it. If it was a book you'd been paid to write I guess you could grit your teeth and hammer out something but this is fanfic we're talking about. Fic we write because we love doing it.
You seriously expect someone to ruin a fic by tacking on a sub-standard ending? Or to spend hours staring at the screen trying to write when they've got to the point of feeling depressed every time they open the file (I'm talking about me now, btw, and not in any way for Ladycat)?
Sometimes, sad though it is, you just have to shrug, admit you're never going to be in the right head space to work on a fic, and move the hell on. The reader should too.
Nagging, whining and castigating an author for that decision is counter-productive, ungrateful and insensitive.
You've got part of a fic you say you love; enjoy it for what it is; a piece of well-written fiction you got to read for free.
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No one starts a story intending to leave it hanging unfinished. No one. Sometimes, not often, it happens and trust me, the person most upset about that is usually the author herself.
Until the day comes that fanfic is something you can buy (which would be never) an author owes a reader nothing, zip, sero. Common politeness and sincere gratitude makes me reply to feedback but I don't _have_ to and I don't have to write to order unless I've signed up for a ficathon, which isn't the case here.
Ladycat is NOT being unfair to her readers and that implies that she's choosing not to finish a story out of malice. Sometimes the impetus to write a fic goes away. It's beyond an author's control and that's all there is to it. If it was a book you'd been paid to write I guess you could grit your teeth and hammer out something but this is fanfic we're talking about. Fic we write because we love doing it.
You seriously expect someone to ruin a fic by tacking on a sub-standard ending? Or to spend hours staring at the screen trying to write when they've got to the point of feeling depressed every time they open the file (I'm talking about me now, btw, and not in any way for Ladycat)?
Sometimes, sad though it is, you just have to shrug, admit you're never going to be in the right head space to work on a fic, and move the hell on. The reader should too.
Nagging, whining and castigating an author for that decision is counter-productive, ungrateful and insensitive.
You've got part of a fic you say you love; enjoy it for what it is; a piece of well-written fiction you got to read for free.