Feb
8th
2017
New Cover Art for Drifting Down the Lazy River · 1:15am Feb 8th, 2017
Thanks to Pen Mightier and Manifest Harmony there is now a new cover picture for Drifting Down the Lazy River, showing Ripple and Turpentine sharing a little time together. Bask in the glory of your new piscine overlady of cuteness and the poor painter who has fallen into her nefarious flippers.
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Georg · 678 views
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That was reallyyyyy fast. Congrats!
AHHHH!!! Too much cute!
It blinds meeee!
Nefarious indeed. Poor colt doesn't know what he's getting into.
Downright adorable... is it wrong I'm hoping this story goes on for a long time, or has a sequel planned after?
4413445 No sequel. That would be going once too many times to the (excuse me) well.
4413490 Wouldn't that make it a trilogy, or did I miss one?
The cuteness!! -dies-
Nice!
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As if that stopped you before
Anyway, nice art!
You seem to have messed up the link to the image source, it goes to the front page of a stock image site.
4414279 Whoops, I frog-gotte to delete the link to Getty images. Fixed. Thanks!
4413907 Pen and Manifest get all the credit and then some. I own a box of crayons. That's about my limit.
4413737 Yes, that would make a trilogy. The thing is, readership drops with every linked sequel (in Fimfiction, at least. Commercial Publishing is different) I hit that with The Traveling Tutor. First story crested at 10k views, fourth (or third, depending on how you count semi-sequels) 3k. Monster in the Twilight is much the same. The original has 25k views, the first chapter of the last arc in Letters From a Little Princess Monster is 1.5k views.
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Might be because you branched into your earlier Nocturne universe by involving Pumpernickel, though. The step to take to read a sequel is a lot smaller than the step to take to read the whole backlog of missed Nocturne stories (Totally worth it, though
).
Also, Diplomats Daughter (sic) (you STILL haven't fixed that title
) isn't really much of a sequel; the real sequel to Librarian is Royal Exam, really.
4414289 Out of curiosity, how does that correlate with single long-running stories? Is a sequel less popular than a story that reaches a natural ending but keeps being dragged out into sequel territory after that?
4414289 Here's some possible reasons sequels have fewer views on FIM:Fic:
1. The sequel is almost never linked in the description of the previous story. I've seen lots of stories wherein the description states that it is a sequel of X Story with a link to it, but if you follow the link to X Story it doesn't have a link back to the sequel. I have also found many sequels by deciding to check the author's stories. I would otherwise have completely missed them.
2. If a sequel is released to a story I like, and the author blogs about it (making sure to push notifications to people with the original marked), I may or may not see the blog. I've been checking my feed daily for several months, but before that there were several months of me not checking it. Whoops.
If they're not advertised beyond that, people who would be interested are not highly likely to know a sequel exists.
3. If I see that a story is a sequel, I'll go back to the origin story. If I don't like it, I won't read the sequel. This would tend to give originals more views.
4. Some people are probably just too lazy to read a sequel because they feel they have to read the original first, so why bother? Sad.
5. In the case of #4, the sequel would be handicapped and less likely to be featured. Being featured might be the only way some fans of the originating story know about the sequel.
6. There's no easy way to search for sequels. I wish Knighty would add a way to see sequels to my favorites.
7. Many sequels are probably extensions of stories that are really over and consequently not as well written. While readers of good stories will almost always want more, sometimes that's just not the right move.
8. Due to #7 & #4, sequels may have a stigma on this site and fewer people may be willing to give them a chance.
That's all I've got.
4414746 Sequels are actually shown in the sidebar. The fact that you either didn't notice or forgot about this says something in of itself about how useful that is, though.
4415200 Yeah, I'm always on the Android phone version of the site, and that's not easy to see. The side bar is always full of stuff I'm not interested in, so I've barely looked there for years regardless. Thanks for telling me though.
Still, once a story is done, I'm not very likely to go back to it's page and sift through the sidebar for sequels. We need better advertisement and search options.
Ship? What ship?