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// Sequel 
// Story: A Filly's Limits 
// by nabrixwrites 
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	Or, rather, the lack of one. First off, I'd like to thank all of you for your positive feedback. It really means a lot to me. A lot of you have expressed interest in a sequel. Well, I'm not going to write one, for several reasons. The first reason is that when I wrote this story over a year ago, I conceptualized the story on Friday, wrote the whole thing on Saturday, and posted it to DeviantART on Sunday. This was way before I used fimfiction, you understand. The whole point of the story was to see if I could still write a compelling, well written story in only a thousand words. And, for all intents and purposes, it succeeded. To date, it remains one of my most praised and highest rated stories. Granted, it's one of the few I've actually completed, but that's no the point. People love it, so as far as I'm concerned, it's a success. But that's just it. I wrote this with the intention that it be a stand alone, quick, short story that can still be very good without being longer. I had no intentions on a sequel, and I still don't.

A second reason is that sequels that only exist because of popular demand and NOT because the author really wanted to write a sequel always fail. They don't have the same charm as the first one and they just plain aren't as good. Let me use another fimfiction user as an example. He goes by the name of Rust. One of his most popular stories ever is The Ballad of Echo the Diamond Dog. And rightfully so, because it is just amazing. I won't go into too much detail, or else this would go on WAY too long, but I will say it is my favorite fanfiction I've ever read. So when he made a sequel, The Legend of Echo the Diamond Dog, you bet your ass I was pumped! But what I got was very forced, overly complex, tedious, and if I had to pick another word, boring, just plain boring. Rust has even said that he had no intentions on a sequel in the first place, and he only wrote it because it was in such high demand. He wasn't even very interested in the story himself, and he said it was keeping him from writing other works. I don't want that to happen to me.

A third reason is simply that if I don't think I can come up with a story that's worth writing, then I'm not going to force myself to write something uninspired. It's just going to come out bad. That's not what writing is about to me. That's never what it's been about. It's about creating art in the form of the written word when I'm inspired to do so. It's not about creating shovelware because the readers demand it.

If I can come up with a story idea that not only works with this story, but also conveys a good central theme that I think goes hand in hand with the one in this story, then MAYBE I'll consider writing a sequel. But for now, no. No sequel. Sorry to disappoint.