WIP Challenge - Check In Day 4 - Tuesday

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Poll #16106

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Today I

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planned
2 (50.0%)

researched
1 (25.0%)

wrote
2 (50.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
1 (25.0%)

did something else
1 (25.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 5.50 Median: 5.5 Std. Dev 1.80

Terrible 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		1 (25.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		1 (25.0%)
6		1 (25.0%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		1 (25.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Wonderful 10		0 (0.0%)

I've been getting a fair number of comments recently urging me to go on with stories that I consider done. These readers apparently find them incomplete. That started me wondering-- How do you know when a story is done? How do you know that this point is really the end?

I usually look for some sort of completed movement. And 'movement' may not be the right word. What I mean is that some corner has been turned, that something has been realized or acknowledged or changed. I'm prone to leaving the full implications of the movement unspoken, so I suppose I can see how those stories might look incomplete to some readers.

Of course, if anybody wants to write a sequel to one of my fics, I give permission in my AO3 profile. Not that people particularly need permission. I just figure it's polite to let people know that I don't mind and would like a link if ever they do.