Aug
19th
2016
More Tantabus (also, blogginating for the first time) · 3:41am Aug 19th, 2016
So, at the advice of a commenter and the spirit of spreading the word, I'm mentioning that I wrote a sequel to "Tantabus, Mk. II": http://www.fimfiction.net/story/342603/aunthood-issues
I apologize to everyone who already knew this and has already seen it, but when I first got on FiMFiction, I figured I'd never use the blog, and so never bothered to take a look at any of the features; once I saw this, I thought, "What a neat idea" and decided to do it, even though this post is a few days late. I may or may not blog more in the future, but I will be sure to mention if/when I post a continuation.
Sixteen stories and only one blog post? Slacking off, I see
Blogging can be hit or miss. Sometimes you get a bazillion reads, sometimes ten. It does make a good spot to unwind, though.
so it might be continued?
4157872 It might be. It might also not be. We'll see. I never thought I'd write a sequel to the first one, but I also never thought it'd be as popular as it was.
Thank you.
I was rather upset I never saw the sequel until a while after it was published.
I saw it and read it, but I like when authors do this.
At least until the site adds a feature to automatically send notifications for sequels to tracked stories. (I don't know if it'll happen, but it should.)'
Edit: I just went and looked, 500 thumbs up and only 2 down? Nice!
...I'd advise renaming the blog-title into something like "Tantabus Mk. II - The SEQUEL", it'll get more people's attention that way.
I don't know how much stuff the average user gets in their feed, but if someone checks back to see 10 new blog-posts, "blogginating for the first time" won't have as high a priority as a blog advertizing a "SEQUEL".
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That feature existed. In 2014, for a few months. Then it quietly disappeared around the same time bookshelves were implemented. *shrug*
I even remember thinking it was a bug when I suddenly stopped getting sequel-notifications.
Can't know what fimfiction looks like under the hood, I guess it was incompatible with the bookshelf-system somehow.
4158257 I cheated just a little with Monster in the Twilight when I published the first arc in Letters From a Little Princess Monster. I added just a one-page addendum to Monster that setup the sequel Letters for the readers (since otherwise, many of the Monster readers might never know it had a followup, because a lot of people don't read blog posts, plus I wanted to get readers comfortable with the idea of a downpowered Monster in a sequel).
It worked well, because Letters got a large upsurge in readers, and the first comment on the addendum chapter starts "You clever little (censored)."
Actually, this is really hand, I didn't know you'd written a sequel until now.